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Runers

79% positive of 226 Steam reviews

Released: 2014
Steam Deck: Not tested
Platforms: Steam

Made by LGK Games. Published by Mastertronic.

About the game

Runers is a top-down rogue-like dungeon shooter where you explore a vast underground labyrinth and face fierce monsters and bosses. As the game advances further into the dungeon, you will gather Runes, which will be used to combine into 285 unique spells.

Tagged by players

RPG
Roguelite
Magic
Roguelike
Dungeon Crawler
Top-Down
Action

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77%1.3K reviews

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Very Positive

What players say

Recommended
Runers is a top-down, may-as-well-be-twin-stick shooter with roguelike qualities, including permadeath. Contrary to what you might have expected after glancing at the screenshots, the game does not feature traditional loot, consumables, equipment or an inventory system, other than what’s required to craft spells. With this in mind, I didn’t expect it to have much depth but was pleasantly surprised to be proven at…
9.1 h played when written. 66 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
Runers has high hopes, and a fantastic spell crafting system, but is held back in just a few too many ways. The game is full of strange design decisions. For example rune combiners are needed only for new spells. This means that early on in your play of Runers you will find yourself unable to create many complex spells, and once you have died a few times and unlocked a lot of spells, you find yourself with combiners…
21 h played when written. 123 found it helpful.
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