Forced Showdown

🗃️ Specifications

📰 Title:	Forced Showdown	🕹️ / 🛠️ Type:	Game
🗃️ Genre:	Adventure & Action	👁️ Visual:	3D Top-Down
🏷️ Category:	Adventure & Action ➤ Card-Based ➤ Misc.	🏝️ Perspective:	Third person
🔖 Tags:	Action RPG; Card-Based; Adventure; Hack and Slash; Strategy; Procedural Generation; Dungeon Crawler; Arcade; Fantasy; Blood; Difficult; Controller	⏱️ Pacing:	Real Time
🐣️ Approx. start:		👫️ Played:	Single
🐓️ Latest:		🚦 Status:	04. Released (status)
📍️ Version:	Latest: -	❤️ Like it:	9. ⏳️
🏛️ License type:	💰 Commercial	🎀️ Quality:	7. ⏳️
🏛️ License:	Commercial	✨️ (temporary):
🐛️ Created:	2016-09-21	🐜️ Updated:	2024-06-22

🚦 Entry status

📰 What's new?:		👻️ Temporary:
💡 Lights on:		🎨️ Significant improvement:
👔️ Already shown:		💭️ New version published (to be updated):
🎖️ This work:		🚧️ Some work remains to be done:
👫️ Contrib.:	goupildb & Louis	🦺️ Work in progress:
🎰️ ID:	15091

📖️ Summary

📜️[en]:	A top-down single-player bullet-hell brawler. The game revolves around Contestants fighting for wealth and glory in an ever-changing galactic game show. The gameplay mixes rogue-lite aspects with a trading-card game. It consists of selecting a champion, enhancing and empowering him and his abilities to battle through hordes of minions and dodging their attacks to survive.	📜️[fr]:	Un jeu de combats monojoueur (vs IA) en arène basés sur un deck de cartes, avec des éléments de RPG, dans lequel les gladiateurs se battent à mort pour la richesse et la gloire dans un show galactique en perpétuel changement (génération procédurale). Le joueur sélectionne son champion, améliore son potentiel via un deck de cartes, et l'envoi combattre des hordes d'ennemis en arène.

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📕 Description [en]

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FORCED SHOWDOWN in short:
Action and deck-building are combined in a Galactic Game Show - but questions gets replaced with deadly Gladiator Battles! You are the contestant - will you die or become a crowd favorite?

5 Unique Gladiators and Play Styles
Each champion has their own unique weapon and special abilities. Unlock their true potential by exploring and extending their possibilities with cards.

Play Your Way: Deck-Building
Build the perfect deck of cards to enhance the abilities of your champion.

Endless Replayability
Hone your skills in the campaign modes and then compete in the daily challenges to see who is the most badass gladiator this side of the galaxy. New seasons every month!

It's Dangerous to Go Alone!
Unlock companion creatures that can help you overcome the dangers of the arena with their extraordinary abilities.

Exotic Enemies
C-SAR has ensured a great host of varied enemies, all with unique fighting styles and skills. Slay the mighty Titans and win the adoration of the spectators.

Are You Not Entertained?
C-SAR has an almost endless amount of procedural generated arenas, show rules, show boons, quests, cards, enemies, bosses, boss cards, companions, worlds, traps, online competitions and more.

The Drone Invasion
The first expansion for SHOWDOWN was released in July 2016 bringing a new character, boss, game mode, modifiers and much more to the show.

🌍️ Wikipedia:

FORCED: Showdown is a top-down single-player bullet-hell brawler developed by Danish indie game developer BetaDwarf. The game was released in March 2016 for Windows, OS X and Linux through the Steam platform as well as GOG. The game revolves around Contestants fighting for wealth and glory in an ever-changing galactic game show. The gameplay mixes rogue-lite aspects with a trading-card game. It consists of selecting a champion, enhancing and empowering him and his abilities to battle through hordes of minions and dodging their attacks to survive.

Gameplay

The player fights through a number of arenas, killing enemies along the way and playing cards. After 8 arenas, the player has completed a Battle, which is a small part of each campaign. Completing enough battles finishes the campaign. There are 4 campaigns in the game.
Contestants

Players have at their disposal 4 (5 with the Drone Invasion expansion) characters, each one with their unique set of skills, that they must choose before entering a show.

Squire of Light is a short distance ranged hero. By utilizing the powers of the sun, he can gain temporary immunity, create heavy sun blasts and knock enemies back.
Volco is the signature melee hero of the game. He carries around a big hammer, and smashes his enemies with the power of magma.
Stormbringer is the long-range hero of the game. He carries a bow and has a cloud pet which enhances his attacks with the power of thunder.
Ravager is an alien beast that relies on its claws to swiftly attack his opponents by leaping on them.
Settsu is an ex-soldier in a mech suit able to shoot enemies with her pulse rifle, fire big balls of plasma and fly with her jetpack.
Cards

Deckbuilding is an important aspect of Forced: Showdown. Each deck must contain exactly 30 cards and at maximum 2 of each card. There are 3 types of cards : upgrade cards, spell cards and consumable cards.

Upgrades - When played, these cards transfer their effects to the player, making him stronger. They are effective until the end of a battle. Playing two similar cards will stack up their effects. Upgrade cards can enhance some of the player’s abilities or some of his characteristics. At the end of a battle, all the upgrades a player received through his cards are reset.
Spells - These are cards that have an immediate or temporary effect and disappear once used. They can go from healing the player to adding manato his manapool or drawing more cards.
Consumables - These are cards that gives an item to the player which he can use later in combat. These items are there to help the player by summoning shooting drones or making him invincible for a few seconds.
Mana

Each card has its own mana cost, related to its power. At the beginning of each arena, the player will receive some mana that he can use to play cards. The amount of mana gained increases by 1 after each arena thus allowing to play stronger and more expensive cards.

Battle rules

Battle Rules are modifiers that affect a Battle. There are two types of modifiers : the positive and negative. Positive modifiers are rules that help the player by empowering him or giving him an advantage but adds more enemies in the arena. Negative modifiers weakens the player or empowers the minions but reduces the number of enemies.

Boons

In arenas, players will collect points. After gathering a certain amount of these, they will unlock a Boon. Boons are permanent upgrades for an entire Program, empowering abilities, increasing damage or health points.

Titans

At the end of a battle, the player will encounter a Titan. They are more powerful enemies with more health than minions and each have their unique set of abilities. There are 11 Titans : Jahun, Graw, Ratbo the Exterminator, Raff the Burninator, Schnappy, Apep, Frank, Ruby von Wouthingtonne IV, The Master and R3-KT.

Companions

The companions are allies that help the player during fights. The player must choose between three companions at the beginning of a campaign: Xiao Long - a ranged dragon, Brutus - a melee fighter and Denver - a charging dinosaur. Companions health like the players, although it increases automatically every arena even if the player does not upgrade them. If a companion dies, it will be unable to help the player until the next arena whereupon they come back to life. Modifiers and cards can affect the Companions.

Plot

The players are cast as Contestants, gladiators in a galactic game show in which they must battle their way through, defeat the Titans waiting for them and ultimately survive to earn fame, glory and wealth. CSAR, the Computer-Simulated Arena Referee, acting as the show presenter accompanies the player throughout the show. In the first program, or campaign, called The Crucible, the player faces Raff the Burninator, a large demon wielding fiery swords. In Frontline, the second program, the player must defeat the wealthy Ruby Von Wouthingtonne IV and her tank. Then, in The Grand Return, the mysterious Master opposes the player. Finally, in The Mentor’s Maze (the campaign from the Drone Invasion expansion), the wise R3-KT will be the player’s final opponent. Only by defeating all these enemies and their minions will the player become the next champion.

📕 Description [fr]

Un jeu de combats de gladiateurs en arènes, dans un show galactique, par le studio BetaDwarf.

Forced Showdown est un jeu de combats monojoueur (vs IA) en arène basés sur un deck de cartes, avec des éléments de RPG, dans lequel les gladiateurs se battent à mort pour la richesse et la gloire dans un show galactique en perpétuel changement (génération procédurale). Le joueur sélectionne son champion, améliore son potentiel via un deck de cartes, et l'envoi combattre des hordes d'ennemis en arène.

FORCÉ SHOWDOWN en bref :
L'action et construction de deck combinés en un Show de Jeu Galactique - mais dont les questions seront remplacées par des combats de gladiateurs à mort ! Vous êtes le candidat - allez-vous mourir ou devenir le favori de la foule ?

5 Gladiators uniques et des styles de jeu
Chaque champion a sa propre arme unique et ses capacités spéciales. Débloquez leur véritable potentiel en explorant et en étendant leurs possibilités avec des cartes.

Jouez à votre manière : Construction de deck
Mettez au point le deck de cartes parfait pour améliorer les capacités de votre champion.

Une jouabilité sans fin
Peaufinez vos compétences dans les modes de campagne, puis participez aux défis quotidiens pour voir qui est le gladiateur le plus dur à cuire de ce côté de la galaxie. De nouvelles saisons tous les mois!

Il est dangereux d'y aller seul !
Débloquez des créatures de compagnie qui peuvent vous aider à surmonter les dangers de l'arène avec leurs capacités extraordinaires.

Des ennemis exotiques
C-SAR a garantie une foultitude d'ennemis variés, tous avec des styles et des techniques de combat uniques. Tuez les puissants Titans et gagnez l'adoration des spectateurs.

N'es-tu pas distrait ?
C-SAR a une quantité presque infinie d'arènes générées de manière procédurales, présente les règles, les quêtes, les cartes, les ennemis, les boss, les cartes de boss, les compagnons, les mondes, les pièges, les compétitions en ligne et plus encore.

Gog:

Retrouvez un cocktail d'action et de construction de deck, le tout présenté comme un grand jeu télé galactique... sauf que les questions sont remplacées par des combats de gladiateurs ! Vous êtes le challenger ; allez-vous mourir prématurément, ou devenir le chouchou du public ?

Voici ce que vous pourrez faire dans l'émission :

• Faire griller un rat dans un rayon de lumière pure !
• Associer des pouvoirs dans des decks stratégiques et délicieusement gores !
• Affronter d'autres candidats dans des défis quotidiens ou des saisons entières.
• Vous éclater avec une myriade d'ennemis, de cartes, d'arènes, de pièges, de bonus, de titans, de règles spéciales, de campagnes, de compagnons, d'emblèmes, d'environnements, j'en passe et des meilleures !
• Terminer mes mystérieuses quêtes !
• Vous marrer... et finir au cimetière !

Steam:

Puissiez-vous mourir glorieusement et dans un tonnerre d'applaudissements !
Bonjour, humain, et bienvenue dans FORCED SHOWDOWN : "La seule émission de la galaxie où des vies sont en jeu !" Choisissez un des 4 participants issus de l'univers de FORCED – chacun est un maître de son propre style de combat - et essayez de devenir une superstar de mon émission en combattant des mondes d'ennemis monstrueux et en affrontant des boss d'arènes épiques. Il est possible que vous mourriez souvent et horriblement, mais pensez à vos fans et souriez devant la caméra !

Les cartes améliorent vos capacités !
Dans mon émission, vous devrez débloquer des cartes capables de fortifier vos stats et d'améliorer vos capacités à chaque bataille. Construisez intelligemment votre deck et montrez vos combos épiques ! Mais en fin de compte, seules vos actions, dans l'arène, vous permettront de braver les coups du sort et la malchance.