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“Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi roguelike shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It’s up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to be victorious.”
Available June 20th on Steam, June 27th on PS4 Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It's up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to be victorious.
Crpytark was also scedhuled for release on PlayStation 4, but was delayed until the 27th.
Unfortunately due to a mistake our on end the PS4 version of Cryptark will now be out on the 27th - Steam version still out today at 11am
— Lee Vermeulen (@Alientrap) June 20, 2017
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