Runestone Keeper brings Minesweeper-like dungeon crawling to Xbox One and PC

We strive to provide you with information on unique games that many players might overlook. Today, E-Home Amusement released Runestone Keeper on Xbox 1 and Windows 10 with Xbox Play Anywhere back up. This means that you tin can purchase the game once on either platform and play information technology on the other at no boosted cost. Cross-salvage allows you to choice the game where yous left off no matter where you lot are.

Runestone Keeper is a roguelike puzzle adventure with part-playing elements. It'south ready within a dark fantasy world filled with challenges. Post-obit a swell calamity, the surviving population discovers a mysterious sealed dungeon. The dungeon is said to contain untold magical runestones and treasure, but none who enter it e'er footstep out again. Playing as one of several unlockable heroes, you'll go the sealed dungeon's conqueror, side by side victim, depending on how you play.

The gameplay in Runestone Keeper is quite unlike from other such titles. For instance, merely Minesweeper, each floor of the dungeon begins every bit a filigree of mist-covered tiles. Selecting a tile reveals its contents, which can include helpful items like gilded, keys and runes. If y'all uncover just enough tiles, you'll discover the exit to the next floor. In that location are also story events with varying choices mixed in.

Surviving enough floors to escape the sealed dungeon won't be easy though. Players encounter numerous forms of impairment, traps, and hordes of increasingly deadly monsters. Runestone Keeper features a plow-based battle system in which players simply attack, employ items, or activate spells or skills. Defeating monsters rewards the hero with the feel and aureate. Both of these can used to become stronger and buy better gear.

Go on in mind that each floor is randomized and death is permanent. Luckily, the game allows you to maintain aureate between runs and unlock permanent upgrades.

Runestone Keeper is only available equally a digital download for $9.99 on Xbox One and Windows x. Go on in heed that it's listed equally "符石守护者" on the Microsoft Store instead of its English translation.

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