It’s been a good year for first person hack & slash games that feature a bit of swashbuckling… First Sea of Thieves and now this: City of Brass by Uppercut Games!

City of Brass is a first person, single player roguelite. Armed with a scimitar and a whip, you’ll be slashing and lashing your way through an ancient city filled with traps and treasure. And from the looks of it, you’re going to die. A lot.

Each time you delve into the city, you’ll encounter a new series of tests and challenges designed to push you to your limits. With every life the city is procedurally generated, but each new incarnation is designed to have a logical flow that keeps moving you forward towards your final battle. The goal being to keep you on your toes, but keep you learning and getting better with each gruesome death!

And even when you’ve finally mastered the City, the adventure doesn’t stop. You can start adding new modifiers to your playthrough, giving enemies increased health, new abilities, different behaviors. You can even change the way the city spawns certain zones and traps for an additional challenge.

Seriously, though… Just look at that trailer.

The graphics are bit cartoony, but solid for the overall aesthetic. The coolest thing though is just being set free inside this really neat, atmospheric playground and being told to have fun! And since City of Brass is being developed by veterans from the Bioshock, Tribes, and XCOM series, you know that it has some serious heavyweight power behind.

It’s not often we see fantasy games set in some version of the ancient middle east. And I for one am looking forward to bargaining with some genies and delving into ancient, Arabian catacombs. This is basically the Aladdin game that I’ve always wanted, but never realized was calling my name. A whooooole new wooooooorld… A new fantastic point of vi–ACK. No. Spikes… Pain… Gaaarrrrrrbbbblllleeeeddd speeeech.

City of Brass was first released as an Early Access title in September, 2017, but now the full game will be released for Playstation 4, Xbox One, and PC this coming May 4th! Make sure to check it out, but I know what I’ll be doing on release day!

Before you go, check out the release video below!

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