You’ll spend your time picking up increasingly better guns, grenades, artifacts, and armor. The systems governing these specificities are of note because they directly shape the way you interact with Jupiter Hell. This pedantic black hole aside, I would define this game as a roguelike per its developers’ description and leave it at that. If you find this interesting and would then like to take it a step further and learn the nuances between a roguelike and a roguelite, I would direct you to the scores of passionate computer science majors who would like nothing better than to tell you the “right” answer.
The point in defining this genre is to make sure you know what you’re in for. Most if not all definitions have fallen short including my previous description because in fact Tetris could then be considered a roguelike. This definition is fluid and muddied as people and organizations have tried to put their finger on the genre.
For the uninitiated, a roguelike game is defined as having random environments, permanent death, and a turn-based grid environment. It’s important to set expectations for Jupiter Hell as it is the Doom formula that fits into the mechanics of this niche genre. None of these trials and tribulations will be apparent when you first crash-land on the moons of Jupiter and begin your first foray into this bloody demon-plagued world. Initially coded in just 11 days, Jupiter Hell has been updated for nearly two decades and now launches its 1.0 update. The game was later put into early access sales on the Steam digital storefront. Needing a fresh influx of capital to finish the project, a crowdfunded Kickstarter campaign was formed that picked up traction with larger publications. After legal warnings were issued by Doom property owners, Zenimax Media Inc., the developer scrubbed the title clean of all proprietary assets. What started as a proof-of-concept later became a joke to incorporate Doom assets. The game’s lifecycle has a long and storied history. The repetitive nature of this gameplay loop is alleviated by randomly generated levels, enemies, and loot each time you play. Appropriately described as “chess with shotguns,” Jupiter Hell is a true roguelike, meaning your objective is to complete the game in a single life causing you to die repeatedly and start from scratch.
Jupiter Hell, developed by Chaosforge out of Poland, is the spiritual successor to a small game called Doom Rogue Like (otherwise known as DRL) and a self-proclaimed “de-make” of the iconic formula fit into a simple and addictive package.
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