I say supposedly, as I haven’t come to the end in any of my runs. Whether you prefer the brute force and healing abilities of the Marine or the item use and hacking of the Technician all are supposedly viable options to complete the game. Each has their own skill trees with various masteries that can lead to very different builds to suit your playstyle. There are three different character classes to choose from at the beginning of each run: Marine, Scout and Technician. I would definitely recommend switching that mode off before making your first run. I can appreciate games including these options for that retro feel, but here it just makes it difficult to read what is going on, and I can only imagine how this convex bulge looks on modern concave curved screens. When first starting the game up you’ll be greeted with an almost ludicrous excessive CRT filter that emulates an old school monitors right down to a faux screen curvature that distorts everything. Something that isn’t so effective is the default visual settings. This contrasts with the recent Doom games that encourage you to get up close and personal, so the closest point of comparison is probably Doom 3 with its narrow corridors and enemy spawn points. Different weapons and skills can improve your range of sight and the accuracy of your shooting, but a cautious approach is almost always the best one. Fog of war is well employed to keep you on your toes and line of sight plays a major role in both discovering enemies and also defeating them safely. It has all the ominous corridors and barely lit corners of the space horror genre. A wide range of difficulty settings are available but even the easiest one is a challenge. There are seed codes to replay a particular setup, but this prevents achievements so is best used to practice and get a feel for the game. Skills, items, experience and progress are completely lost upon death and with each run being procedurally generated you cannot even learn the best paths through. Unlike many more popular roguelikes, such as Hades where iterative progress is continued across multiple runs, Jupiter Hell goes for a more traditional and unforgiving style of permadeath. While this succeeds in giving them some extra sense of individuality, I found it broke the mood at times. The tactical action is also accompanied by an appropriate thrash metal soundtrack – in the early levels, at least – though where the Doomguy is largely mute, your character here is closer to Duke Nukem in their foul mouthed tirades. Such a description hardly does the game justice as that basic outline could apply to many titles, but here the influence is clear and deliberate. You play as a lone soldier fighting off hordes of demonic enemies with a range of weapons, while also searching for keys that unlock doors.
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