Beacon

Release Date: 2019-02-27

Developer: Monothetic LLC

Genres: Action, Indie, Early Access

Price: 14.99

Beacon follows the journey of space privateer Freja Akiyama on her endless search for her crashed ships emergency distress beacon. In your search youll not only find weapons and items to help you; youll also be collecting DNA from the enemies you defeat. When you inevitably die youre given the opportunity to integrate the DNA youve collected into your genome allowing you to alter your statistics and gain gameplay-altering physical mutations for your next clones life.In the search for the Beacon new questions arise; just how many clones of Freja are there? How long has she been stuck in an infinite cycle of survival? How much of her humanity will be sacrificed before escaping?5 Randomly Generated Levels -- Enter at the outer forest fight your way through the tropical swamps and push through the pollution to the cryptic Prism Vault where your Beacon is being held!A rich multi-faction world to explore -- Discover the mysteries behind Kovus 18 find tinkered Weapon Variants left behind by previous clones and track your secrets found percentage at the end of each level!6 Unique Weather Types with Storm Events -- Avoid or make use of Hailshards Tesla Storms and Polluted Tornadoes.125+ Items Spread Across 4 Item Types -- Regain an advantage with one time use Pickups activate your re-useable auxiliary swap your grenade mod and stock up on passive mods!75+ Weapons -- Spread across 5 factions each with their own unique technologies.75+ Mutations -- Gain new abilities with each death and alter your character into something not quite human.35+ Enemies with 8 Champion Variants -- The varied factions that inhabit Kovus 18 will fight each other as well as you.3+ Boss Fights -- Including the Solus Hivemind and Excavation Spider!DNA is the core of Beacons gameplay loop. Through the use of Frejas state-of-the-art Clone Bay and DNA dropped by deceased enemies upon death youre given the opportunity to alter your genetic makeup changing your statistics before a fresh clone is ‘printed back at the beginning of the game. Each faction has their own set of unique DNA and mutations allowing you to become a battle-hardened mass of metal a luminous abomination of insect flesh or anything inbetween.The planet youve crashed on is unfamiliar. The only information available is its name – Kovus-18 – as it flashes up on your Visorsys OS; the rest of the record is blank. It seems that either nothing is known about it or whatever was known has been scrubbed from the database. Multiple factions populate its surface each seemingly at war with the others and all of them hostile to the planets newest inhabitant… you. In Beacon you play as Freja Akiyama. Having grown up in the backwaters of civilised space Freja always dreamed of adventure. Enrolling in the military at a young age she quickly discovered both her natural abilities for combat and piloting spacecraft and her inability to work within the strict regimen of the armed forces. Freja lives and works aboard her ship the Ouroboros – a single-berth heavily-modified light spacecraft that boasts state-of-the-art weaponry and facilities.