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Synthetik: Ultimate began its life on PC to high acclaim. Favouring realistic, methodical gun mechanics over high-speed action, it’s a relatively fresh take on the roguelite genre, albeit one that feels a tad unpolished at times. There’s no doubt that Synthetik: Ultimate has a mighty steep hill to climb when competing with the likes of Hades and Dead Cells, but if you’re after something a bit different, then this might just be the game for you.

Displayed from a top-down viewpoint reminiscent of classic Metal Gear titles, you play as one of eight different character classes with a vague goal of reaching the top of a structure called the ‘Citadel’, each class granting you with a specific loadout. The menu interface when loading up the game is frustratingly fiddly, relying on a slow-moving cursor to pull up the necessary information, with text that’s just a hair away from being too small when playing in handheld mode.

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