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TURN-BASED TACTICAL ROGUELIKE OUTCAST TALES: THE FIRST JOURNEY LAUNCHES FREE ON STEAM TODAY

Keep your crew happy (or don’t) and engage in strategic battles against wandering outlaws in this exciting prologue to the upcoming Outcast Tales game!

NICOSIA, Cyprus – Jan. 29, 2024 – CRITICAL REFLEX is thrilled to launch Outcast Tales: The First Journey, a free playable prologue to the upcoming roguelike Outcast Tales by developer Hardlane Studio, on PC via Steam today. Lead a party of three mismatched outcasts in the post-apocalypse on the hunt for glory and wealth. Venture into the perilous wastes with the prologue’s launch trailer, featuring the game’s narrator, Samuel Barnett, known for portraying Dirk Gently in the BBC series Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and Delamain in Cyberpunk 2077!

The wasteland is full of dangers - monstrous beasts, scavengers, hunger, and… stubborn personalities? Choose a unique party of three misfits with various roles, personalities and abilities to guide you through the post-apocalyptic desert. Traverse the map building - or destroying - the relationships and morale of your crew, all while devastating your enemies in thrilling and deadly turn-based battles.

Key Features

• Lead a Band of Misfits: Outcast Tales: The First Journey features four characters and five unique personalities to construct your party. Different crew combinations will affect how your team behaves, so experiment on each run for new narrative events and strategic synergies.
• Try Not to Die: Use turn-based abilities in combat to exploit your foes’ weaknesses, and keep your crew’s morale high out of battle to improve their odds of survival. If tragedy does befall your team, don’t worry: you can always start over with a new one!
• Fight Better Together: Outside of combat, narrative events and dialogue choices can change your party’s morale and feelings toward one another, shaping the story as you go. Build their relationships so they help each other out in battle, free of charge! Or let them go at it and see if your band of bickering bandits makes it out alive - some outcasts are outcasts for a reason!
• Precious Pet Companions: Travel with Chomp, an adorable lizard companion, or Awoo, a rescue dograt - just make sure to keep them alive!
• Twitch Integration: Connect the game with Twitch to auto-generate community polls, allowing viewers to influence event options, travel locations, and level-up rewards.

An expansive journey awaits when the complete version of Outcast Tales officially launches later this year. With eight total characters, seven different personalities, an elaborate quest system, branching storylines, world-altering moments and 10 times the narrative events, Outcast Tales will be the adventure of a lifetime!

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CRITICAL REFLEX SHOWCASES NEW TITLES AT GAMESCOM 2023

Come August 23-27 for hands-on demos from a variety of the publisher’s upcoming games, including Altered Alma, Freaked Fleapit, Outcast Tales, Rose and Locket, and more!

NICOSIA, Cyprus – Aug. 10, 2023 – CRITICAL REFLEX is coming to Gamescom later this month, and today the publisher revealed the full list of titles it’ll be showcasing to the press and public at the event. From August 23-27, you can experience hands-on demos for a number of great games in CRITICAL REFLEX’s upcoming line-up, including:

ALTERED ALMA

Set in Neo-Barcelona, Altered Alma is a space opera Metroidvania featuring RPG and dating sim elements, a slick pixel-art presentation, and a gripping, non-linear story from award-winning writer Antony Johnston (Resident Evil Village, Dead Space). As a young mercenary named Jack, you’ll carve your way through ruthless gangsters in fast-paced combat while working for some of the city’s most dangerous people. Upgrade your hero with unique abilities, customize your ship, recruit and forge bonds with new crew members, and make difficult moral choices while trying to protect the ones you love.

Gamescom attendees can check out the first playable demo of Altered Alma featuring the beginning area of the game (the Spaceport), plus a boss fight.

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ROSE AND LOCKET

To save her daughter’s spirit from malevolent forces, gunslinger Rose must journey through the realms of the Underwest. Along her path, she’ll recover long-forgotten skills and abilities, wield awesome powers, and face countless foes. Rose and Locket is a lighting-fast action-adventure game featuring a grand story about loss and devotion in a breathtaking, cinematic, hand-painted world.

Experience Rose and Locket’s new playable demo at Gamescom featuring previously unseen gameplay, including a fully finished biome and the Wrath boss fight.

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FREAKED FLEAPIT

Hell never looked this good! Save your soul in Freaked Fleapit, a wild cocktail of rhythm-based dungeon crawling and date sims that’ll have you dancing your way through nine circles of Hell to heart-pumping music. When the Reaper herself offers you a way to get out of the run-down fleapit that is Purgatory, you’ll have to go through each of the nine circles of Hell, beating any demons along the way to free your soul! Sounds easy enough...

Visitors can go hands-on with two circles of Hell, three dates, and two boss fights!

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OUTCAST TALES

Outcast Tales (previously titled Ragtag Crew) is a turn-based tactical roguelite drawing inspiration from Darkest Dungeon with a delightful twist of humor, set in a post-apocalyptic desert where your party members can bicker or forge bonds together. Each character has a unique combination of class and personality, which can drastically change the outcomes of the journey. Outcast Tales heads to Gamescom with new elements like enhanced visuals and the voice of Samuel Barnett (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency) as its charismatic narrator.

Visitors can check out a new hands-on demo with all gameplay systems implemented.

In addition, visitors to CRITICAL REFLEX’s public booth at Gamescom can play the atmospheric deck-building strategy game IRONHIVE, the futuristic city-building game Complex SKY, and the pixel-art roguelite-auto-battler Deadlock Station.

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