Hello from Monothetic! We’re a small, young, independent games development team currently working on our first commercial project. That project is Beacon, a sci-fi action roguelike game currently targeting Windows, Mac, and Xbox One – and we’d like to introduce you to it today. In Beacon, you take control of Freja, a recently-deceased pilot-for-hire whose ship has just crashed into the side of an unknown planet. Luckily for Freja – thanks to her ship’s automated clone bay – being dead isn’t quite the permanent problem that it once was. Played as a top-down shooter, Beacon tasks you with fighting your...
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