"Co-Op Fans Should Jump Into This One Early": Relic Hunters Legend Preview

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This year marks a milestone for, a series of games which will assuredly have more eyes on it this week. Jimmy, Pinkyy, Ace, Panzer, and the rest of the Spaceheart’s crew have been blasting ducks and digging for treasure since 2015’s, a twin-stick looter-shooter largely influenced by Vlambeer’s with a plucky cartoon veneer. Now, with entering Early Access, the most ambitious incarnation of Brazilian studio Rogue Snail’s original IP is finally open to the public, and it already features a robust campaign from day one.

While was technically announced six full years ago, the current version of the game went through several different apparent iterations, pricing concepts, and visual designs on the way to this EA release. Incorporating aspects of the Netflix Games-published, feels like Rogue Snail’s full-fat debut as a studio, a content-rich and characterful perpetually online looter-shooter that accomplishes that rare feat: delivering a worthy and thoughtful singleplayer story campaign, which was able to preview over the past weeks.

After crash landing their Spaceheart ship on a planet known as The Cradle, the titular Relic Hunters quickly establish themselves among the rebel factions in the fight against the villainous Ducan Empire. Much of the game's story revolves around the team's newest recruit Seven, a white-haired time-traveler with devastating powers, and plays out through cinematic segues in between combat missions. Longtime fans of the rest of ’s cast should fear not, though, with extended quest lines already drawn for Pinkyy, Ace, Raff, and Jimmy, all of whom can be unlocked swapped between on the world map (Rogue Snail has also hinted that Panzer and Biu will be getting more attention in future content updates).

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