Diablo's hack 'n' slash action meets cozy Stardew Valley town-building in this co-op game threatening all my free time

Screenshot of Lynked: Banner of the Spark.
(Image credit: Fuzzybot Games)

Grinding different characters to maximize one thwack's deadliness is already enough of a time sink in games like Diablo. Add in Stardew Valley's moreish, bitesized tasks and town-building, and you have a recipe that could threaten global produ🌼ctivity levels - which is exactly what Lynked: Banner of the Spark is doing.

Announced on stage during 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Gamescom Opening Night Live, Linked: Banner of the Spark is the debut game from developer Fuzzybot, and it's basically a mash-up of almost🍰 every trending ꧟genre right now. Medal of Honor veteran and creative director Max Spielberg described it as a "co-op action hack and slash with a bit of roguelike and town building elements."

The director then explained that the studio "blended these ideas together to create this coz♊y yet highly kinetic action game for players to brawl, build, and befriend a crew of adorable robots." The below trailer gives us a taste of that dichotomy, split between evil robot bashing and cute robot catering. 

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Lynked is set in the far future of 3000 where the world hasn't turned into an inhospitable wasteland, but humans are still endangered anyway - probably something to do with an evil robot army. So, playing as one of the last humans left, y🐭ou need to work together with the cuddly robots to build a "sustainaꦐble" town while bringing down the bad eggs (and using their remains to further build up your settlement.)

Lynked: Banner of the Spark might just keep me permanently grinding for better builds and buildings when it hits ea♓rly access on October 22. 

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Kaan freelances for various websites including Rock Paper Shotgun, Eurogamer, and this one, Gamesradar. He particularly enjoys writinꦦg about spooky indies, throwback RPGs, and anything that's vaguely silly. Also has an English Literature and F💮ilm Studies degree that he'll soon forget.