Right, roll call time. “A barbarian (for all the bonk boys in the audience)”. Present. A mage who’s the smartypants choice. Yeah. A thief, who’s both “classic” and “obligatory”. Here. “Rat with saxophone”. Yup. Right, that’s all of the fantasy trope character types accounted for in Dark Scrolls, a roguelike dungeon-running platformer from the devs behind Gunbrella and Gato Roboto.

Published by Devolver Digital just like those previous works, Dark Scrolls is about hacking, slashing and platforming your way through “hordes of enemies and deadly traps in procedurally generated runs of hand-crafted rooms and levels”. The action looks to take place across a range of dungeon locales, including spooky forests, freezing mountains, and spaaaaaaaacccceeee. There are branching paths you can tackle alone or alongside a mate in co-op, and bosses waiting to duff you up at the end of each run.

Doinksoft promise nine character classes to pick from, including the ones outlined in the intro, and “a weird perk system that you won’t understand at first but then it’ll click and your power will spiral out of control and it’ll feel really good, promise”. They also say a goose will honk at you while you’re shopping. In the game, I assume, otherwise maybe watch out for avians next time you go to the supermarket.

All in all, it looks cool, if a game that’s in for the fight of its life against the every-expanding array of games that have 15 thousand hacks and slashes on screen at once and give you deja vu on a regular basis (the best roguelikes, in other words).

“Gunbrella is a short and intensely fun little shooter, whose biggest fault is occasionally luring you into wanting it to be something more than it actually is,” Steve Hogarty wrote in our Gunbrella review. “What’s here is a bouncy, blasty, highly original 2D platformer with a silly and interesting weapon at its core, set in a filthy dirty steampunk western world, with dialogue that’s cute but not too cute, a catchy musical score and a screen that shakes just right when you fire your shotgun into a guy.”

Dark Scrolls is release dateless as of right now, but you can wishlist it on Steam if you’re so inclined.