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Then there’s the lack of real coordination tools. With no voice or text chat, you’re left to hope your team naturally understands the plan—which they often don’t—or rely on emoticons to direct those around you. Even if the emote wheel has arrows and objective’s icons, most of the time players won’t follow them.

Bumping into another player or two, teaming up to fight random objectives, then going through the entire dungeon, only to get separated and somehow feel melancholy about that 20-minute unspoken bond is probably something you can only get from a video game.

has a hub world, The Dark Woods, that players return to after each loop. This is where you’re able to apply upgrades, equip new weapons, alter your appearance and get some training in.

These fights are brutal, even with 11 teammates, as waves of enemies must be defeated before the Holy Fire consumes everything. Victory grants a Legendary Relic, a crucial boost for the final fight. After several runs, I learned that teleporting to help other groups before ascending increases everyone’s chances—more relics mean a stronger team against Lucifer.

A unique boss duo awaits at the end of Purgatory too, while the upcoming dungeon set in heaven should deliver the final fight against God for those who are worthy.

enters the fight with simple but rewarding combat-favoring groups of allies, a tight gameplay loop to keep coming back, fantastically balanced maps for cooperative play, and a simple but highly readable graphics style. The game does a lot of things well, but there’s also a lot of promises being made, especially for things that should be staple for new games such as controls remapping.

Every few Torture Chambers, divine punishment strikes—fire tornados, meteors, and other deadly hazards force you to stay on the move or be wiped out. This Wrath of God intensifies until 12 chambers are cleared, triggering Holy Fire and the final sprint to the Ascension Battles.

While players have more than one wheel of emoticons, they’re still not enough to communicate effectively. Screenshot via Dot Esports

The good news is that all these and more features and content are a part of the studio’s roadmap for 2025. The bad news is that you aren’t getting any of it right now, essentially making the early access version a worse experience if you pick it up this soon, 33 Immortals Gameplay unless you want the title in your library before the price goes up at the 1.0 launch.

That also means you can join an open game at any time – there are more than enough enemies around should I just want a quick “pick-up and raid” session to earn some Shards to spend on cosmetics and Perks in The Dark Woods, your home base on this adventure. Having a constant flow of Souls in and out Inferno also fits nicely within the narrative of 33 Immortals

The tutorial ensures you experience failure firsthand, as the relentless enemies eventually overwhelm you. 

Each one doesn’t have a lot of power in their hands alone, but even Hell itself can be taken down with enough unity and coordination. At least I hope so, since none of the runs I did with my teammates ended up beating even Lucifer at his domain.

Mass multiplayer dungeon diving being its primary strength can also be a pitfall if not enough players end up being available to sustain it in a few months’ time. Game Pass is a valuable launch platform in this regard, but not having a Steam version may hurt the game more than a little.

This multi-tiered approach to finishing your roguelike “run” is challenging, yet very fun to play with — even though I only managed to complete just three Torture Chambers before succumbing to the elements (aka ‘ripped apart by monsters’). As I would learn during repeated runs – it seems the number of completed Torture Chambers is retained should you die and reenter Inferno — the larger the group of fellow Souls I traveled with, the larger my chances of survival became – and you can imagine how much bigger those chances get with 32 other people on your side.