One of my favorite surprises of 2024 was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate, a fairly unassuming licensed roguelike that turned out to be actually good enjoyable. It’s mainly Hades with turtles and four-player co-op, however as I stated in my evaluate, it is “a intelligent tackle the components with plenty of concepts and character of its personal”.
Before the PC launch, developer Super Evil Megacorp promised loads of ongoing assist, and it is staying true to its phrase with a brand new DLC growth, due February fifth. Casey Jones & The Junkyard Jam introduces everybody’s favorite hockey-themed vigilante as a playable character, with a preventing model that, uniquely for the roster, options ranged assaults (that’s, whacking hockey pucks at individuals).
It additionally provides a brand new zone to the bottom recreation’s 4: the Junkyard. This space acts as a substitute for the Streets—after the Docks, you’ll divert into the Junkyard to beat up new frog enemies, large mutant mini-bosses, punk variants of present foes, and what seems to be like a towering mech ultimate boss.
A bit of additional selection is all the time very welcome in a recreation like this—a brand new character and zone is sufficient added spice to get me coming again for one more few runs. That ought to make February a good time for brand new gamers to leap in, too, as a result of that is simply going so as to add extra choices to each run moderately than artificially extending them or being some sort of hardcore endgame problem.
Of course, crucial factor is that it is given me one other excuse to bang on about this neglected gem of 2024. It will not be the final time, dudes.
