You can play as one of three classes: the Marine, the Scout, or the Technician. I liked how Jupiter Hell doesn’t try to overdo context or narrative, it just gives you a gun and says “Raze Hell” (I do love that pun).Īfter a brief but informative tutorial, Jupiter Hell throws you right into the action. That’s all there really is to it, but that’s all there needs to be. Putting out a distress signal or crying in the corner wouldn’t make a fun time, so instead you go to work killing everything in sight (or, as our protagonist loves to say, “watering the grass”) and finding out the truth about what’s going on.

You play as a foul-mouthed gunslinger who crashlands on a space station to find that everyone on board has either been brutally massacred or turned into a mindless sack of meat. Let’s take a look at what Jupiter Hell does right, and what doesn’t work so well. After playing the game for several hours I probably wouldn’t jump to that comparison, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Rather than being an FPS, however, Jupiter Hell is a turn-based, isometric roguelike that has been marketed as ‘chess with guns’. Everything from the gloomy space stations, hoards of demons, heavy weaponry, and thrash-metal soundtrack honours the 90s classics we know and love. Jupiter Hell isn’t afraid to wear its influences on its sleeve, and in reality its homage to DOOM is one of its main selling points.

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