New Meat

New Meat's first update, The Overtime Update, is now live!  See the devlog for details!

New Meat is a fast-paced horror-comedy roguelite about burgers, monsters and dead-end jobs.  You play as Niko, the new hire at a remote burger establishment named Burger Site, and it's your job to keep the freezers stocked with meat for the hungry customers to munch on.  How do you do that?  Simple!  Just head down to the horrible sprawling flesh-dungeon underneath the building and blast a few of the roaming monsters into delicious meaty chunks!  Just make sure they don't take a bite out of you, first.

Survive five days of mayhem to earn your place as a permanent hire, and if you do really well, possibly even more.  Anything can happen in the Meat Dungeon, and there are lots of secrets to find...though you might not like what you see.

New Meat is my first commercial release!  Born from a smaller, free project, it's been given a full audio-visual-gameplay-ual overhaul, with help by artists Christopher Null, Ceri Langell, and the music of Maggie Evans.

FEATURES:

-A unique progression system!  Some roguelites let you continually build up your stats between runs, while others are one-and-done.  New Meat combines these two formats in a unique way, taking place over five days and allowing you to build up your stats more and more with each passing day.  But, Day Five is the cutoff, and after that you're judged and start the whole week again.  It's a hybrid system that should appeal to every kind of roguelite fan!

-Every stat counts!  Your character stats aren't just for fighting.  They help with dungeoneering, too!  Raise your Attack to more easily break open barrels and chests.  Raise your Defense to reduce damage from hazards, or your Agility to gain a chance to dodge them altogether.  Think Luck is useless?  Higher Luck gets you more AND BETTER loot from chests!

-Progress is never truly lost!  Death isn't the end in the Meat Dungeon.  No matter how well or poorly you do, you'll always be on track for one of the game's many endings.  There's just as much to see and learn in failure as there is in success, so take your lumps and accept your fate, whatever it might end up being.

-Innovative "Triple-Take Dialogue System!"  New Meat is built for replayability from the ground up, and that even includes the cutscenes. The unique "Triple-Take Dialogue System" ensures that cutscenes will stay fresh even across many playthroughs.

-Many endings, many secrets!  New Meat may appear to be a simple, almost arcade-y romp, but there’s a mystery bubbling beneath its surface. What is the dungeon? What are these monsters? Is it really safe to be serving this meat to people? It will take more than expert dungeoneering to solve this one. Poke at the edges, consider the clues, and if you see any strange doors, make sure you take a look at what's beyond them.

WHAT'S HERE:

-120 Equipment pieces with unique abilities, making for tons of build combinations!

-6 Weapons, each with very different playstyles and unique upgrade trees for even more wildly specialized builds!

-A nonspecific number of mysterious "Curios," strange objects that further change your game by giving you new passive and active effects!

-42 Weird, meaty enemies drawn by the very talented Christopher Null!

-9 Tricky bosses, plus a very menacing final boss!  Not everyone will make it all the way to her...

-11 Endings!  This game tracks your progress closely and judges you carefully.  There are many ways your first week on the job can play out.  In some of the endings, you even survive!

WHAT'S NEXT?

Free updates are planned after launch, offering new modes, new endings, new equipment, and tons of new secrets!

(Windows or Windows-capable machine required)