Vote of Confidence: Chasm

Vote of Confidence provides a look at games that have finished their initial crowdfunding period, but are still open for pre-orders or donations.

Chasm is a procedurally-generated metroid-vania game with rogue-like elements. It sports a 16-bit pixel-art style and promises a variety of dungeon tile sets, monsters, bosses and loot as you fight your way through the passages under an old mining town.

The Kickstarter Campaign was a success, gaining over $190K in total by the end of the pledging period. The game is still available for pre-order through the official site, with $15 getting you a copy of the game, a donation of $25 includes early access and the digital soundtrack, whilst $45 includes a variety of PDF materials like game art, development notes and a tabletop gaming module.

There's a free demo available on the website, to give you an idea of the gameplay mechanics and lets you get a good look at the art style, it looks really nice in motion. You can tinker around with the equipment system, explore two floors of the mine and see a few different monsters. It takes about 20 minutes or so for a direct playthrough.

The trailer for Chasm

Personally I think Chasm possesses an interesting retro-charm, it stole my interest as soon as I saw the trailer. The dungeon-delving aspects look like they'll be entertaining, and with randomised layouts and loot drops no two playthroughs will be quite the same.

Further Reading

More information, the demo and the three tiers of preorder are available on the official Chasm website: http://chasmgame.com/

Chasm was recently Greenlit on Steam.
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