Early access ....
Crawl
http://store.steampowered.com/app/293780/
i think its hyped, (Exaggerated expectations created by over-promising or over-advertising hype)
i read about Crawl coming soon 1.5 years ago already in some (paper) magazines
Its taking way too long for a game type of which dozens or maybe even more are already been released in the past years.
I think many devs/publisher forget that waiting too long can 'spoil' a release.
Anyways , i read too many times the " we want to add as much ...
want to make the game feel as complete as ...
and more stuff like that
I remember reading something about having a Gabe boss or monster in side the crawl game?
It takes to long, so the expectations of the game will rise and when its finally released, it might be a bummer,
I been reading game magazines since the AMIGA, and lateron PC magazines so thats about 35 years of reading magazines, yup paper magazines, thats before internet and socialmedia 'took over' Europe, and all things have to be digital and paper versions are abandoned.
Lemon_Curry: It's probably in denichement. :P
maybe...
The sad thing is they can use and add anything, its pixel style like c64 era, and most gamers dont know that era,
i guess the bulk of the steam users (13 tot 18 years) dont even know c64 or atari 2600 without using Google :D
so they will buy anything.
So the devs can 'grab ideas and monsters and all kinds of things' that were done in the 70s, cause chances are very small the average gamer will notice that (except for me i been around since atari 2600 and i have seen a lot.)
I see too many games like crawl using old stuf that was used in c64 games or atari 2600 games... the difernce is more frames and more fluent animation.