Overview
Leap of Fate released on Steam Early Access on July 31, 2015. It's full release was on March 30, 2016.
Gameplay
Leap of Fate is a fast paced action roguelike. Taking place in a cyberpunk New York City players can choose between 4 unique characters with distinct play styles to take on the 'Crucible of Fates', a series of increasingly difficult dungeons generated by shuffling a deck of cards (similar to Hand of Fate) featuring combat encounters, shops, mysteries, upgrades, and the dungeons boss.
In addition to their basic attacks, each character has the ability to 'Shadow Walk', allowing them to teleport away from(or through) groups of enemies. They each also start with a unique glyph. Glyphs are powerful abilities that can be upgraded or replaced throughout a run. By killing enemies with abilities other than basic attacks and opening chests the player earns mana, which acts as the games experience points and currency. Mana can be spent in shops to purchase helpful items and upgrades or spent on skills in one of the 3 skill trees; passive, attack, or mobility. Each time the player starts a new run the layout of the skill trees are randomized, requiring the player to adapt each time they play.
Though skills, upgrades, and items are lost on each new run, each character has several skills that can be permanently unlocked by completing missions. Missions range from killing a certain number of enemies without taking damage, to killing bosses with very specific abilities.
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