Factsheet
Developer
Monothetic LLC
Based in San Francisco, CA
Founded
1 January 2013
Website
Press Contact
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Overview
In Beacon you play as interstellar mercenary Freja Akiyama, stuck in an endless search for her distress beacon after crash-landing onto an unknown planet. With your Clone Bay stuck in an automatic printing cycle, death is only a minor setback. Each life you’ll not only scavenge for weapons and items to help you; you’ll also be collecting DNA from the enemies you defeat. After your inevitable death, you’re given the opportunity to alter your genome, changing your statistics and gaining gameplay-altering physical mutations for your next clone's life.
In the search for your beacon, new questions arise; just how many clones of Freja are there? How long has she been stuck in an infinite cycle of survival? How much of her humanity will be sacrificed before escaping?
Beacon will be released on Windows on Steam, Itch.io, and Utomik.
Video
Teaser trailer for Beacon's full release, created November 2021.
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Selected Press
Xbox/ See what's new from ID@Xbox E3 2016
Game Informer/ The Best Indie Games Of GDC 2016
Xbox Wire/ Explore Alien Worlds and Cheat Death in Beacon for Xbox One
Rock, Paper, Shotgun/ Premature Evaluation: Beacon
PC Gamer/ Sci-fi Roguelike Beacon is all kinds of stylish
/ Science is messy and cloning's unlimited in twin-stick shooter Beacon
Kotaku/ In Beacon, Death Is A Small Victory
IGN UK/ Beacon puts a new twist on the Action Roguelike
Eurogamer/ Gorgeous cyberpunk shooter Beacon is about dying to survive
The Sixth Axis/ Beacon splices DNA, looting and tentacles in the next roguelite you need to play
Here are words/ The Folks at Monothetic Discuss Beacon, a Rogue-like with a Sci-Fi Twist
Team / Contact
Kiefen Zipf CEO / 3d Art
kzipf@monothetic.com
Joseph Russell Writing
jrussell@monothetic.com
Taychin Dunnvatanachit Creative Director
tdunn@monothetic.com
Arran Seaton Design / Audio
aseaton@monothetic.com
Michael Corsaro Programming
mcorsaro@monothetic.com
Bovornrat Kasemkamolkij CFO
bovp@monothetic.com
Russ Briggeman Animation
For general enquiries, please email us at
info@monothetic.com
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