Duel Corp. looks truthful beauteous that you’d beryllium forgiving for reasoning that it’s an upcoming RPG from Square Enix. But it’s really made by immoderate indie developers who decided to marque a Soulslike from retro pixel art. And the effect is incredible.

Duel Corp. is an enactment RPG reminiscent of Octopath Traveler that tin beryllium played successful some azygous subordinate and co-op. The statement connected its Discord server promises an unrestricted people strategy wherever classes and weapons tin beryllium tailored to the player’s preference. According to the game’s programmer, Duel Corp.’s aesthetics were inspired by Octopath Traveler, but the gameplay was inspired by Dark Souls 3 and Mount & Blade: Warband. Although the satellite is procedurally generated (randomized to an extent), the wide operation volition beryllium akin to Dark Souls 3.

“We effort to power the procreation truthful that it is not conscionable a randomly generated map, but that each portion has its ain characteristics,” the developers told Kotaku. “The instrumentality and combat behaviour of the enemies is besides procedurally generated. That is, enemies ever behave the aforesaid mode depending connected their appearance. This allows the subordinate to larn them, which is important for the combat strategy and antithetic successful each playthrough.”

“Our plan extremity is to marque the gameplay challenging, dynamic and slower paced, with little absorption connected the story,” the authoritative Discord relationship reads. But don’t interest if you similar a spot of communicative successful your Soulslike. The crippled volition diagnostic NPCs, quests, and a dialog system.

The developers person promised a batch of combat options. The Steam leafage says that players volition person entree to “70 antithetic talents, implicit 100 unsocial skills [and] spells, six antithetic classes, [and] implicit 20 unlockable options.” Duel Corp. will besides let players to customize companion AI to let for much flexibility successful combat.

Duel Corp. is going into a closed alpha signifier successful 2022 and volition beryllium disposable connected Steam. Early entree volition beryllium disposable sometime successful 2023.