Find true strength in numbers. Optimize your skills and tactics to bolster your 33-player team, and tip the odds in your benefício through powerful cooperative moves.

is the options menu, with no settings available for tweaking the graphics. The title has meager system requirements that only wants a dual-core CPU and a GPU with 2GB VRAM; it’s something you’ll be able to easily install and enjoy even on decade-old hardware.

makes sure you feel every decision, every mistake, and every moment of triumph has weight on your soul. 8 33 Immortals 33 Immortals is a bold take on the roguelike genre, but its large-scale co-op is both a thrill and a challenge. When teamwork clicks, going against divine judgement it’s an otherworldly experience—but when it doesn’t, runs can feel chaotic and frustrating for solo players.

And while I really like the game’s massive scale and the forced cooperation, there are moments where it feels like pure luck whether you get a well-organized squad or a chaotic free-for-all. More ways to communicate, a tighter movement system, and tweaks to balance the power curve would go a long way in refining the experience.

A unique boss duo awaits at the end of Purgatory too, while the upcoming dungeon set in heaven should deliver the final fight against God for those who are worthy.

This is a large-scale cooperative dungeon diver roguelike, all streamlined for accessibility so that you can enjoy the best parts of a typical raid experience without much of the setup.

To stand a chance, you must farm monsters immediately. They drop dust, 33 Immortals Gameplay which fills your Dust Bubble and can be deposited at Dust Shrines to upgrade Attack, Vitality, or Empathy. Scattered across the map are Torture Chambers, high-risk combat trials with valuable loot—two Relic chests, one always open one requiring a key—that are limited to six players at a time.

It’s curious to see just how players of different skill levels and experience come together in groups. Even in the most organized parties that have formed non-verbal agreements (using a handy emote wheel) to focus on specific objectives, there’s that one player who is doing their own thing in a corner while hacking away at the wrong thing, and somehow, surviving to the end.

describes itself as a distillation of the MMO raid experience, an action-packed roguelike where 33 players are placed together on a large world map, a land littered with charred buildings and jagged spears of stone surrounded by flames. It’s also full of monsters. Lots of monsters.

The tutorial ensures you experience failure firsthand, as the relentless enemies eventually overwhelm you. 

Each of these weapons have a primary and secondary attack that rely on you inflicting damage on enemies to build up their respective gauges.

Being an early access release, Thunder Lotus has a lot more planned for the title following its initial release. On the road to 1.0, the studio hopes to add more features like private sessions, more enemy and boss variety, and the third world that let players fight God.

was conducted on a pre-release copy of the Xbox version provided by the developer and Microsoft. The game was played on a Windows PC.

Despite having an impressive world that encourages cooperation, massive wars against the afterlife’s forces, and a good God-killing hook for an exciting gameplay loop, there are some missing aspects that I can attribute solely to this being an early access release.