After a catch-'em-all MMO, TemTem dev reveals a co-op roguelike that looks like Pokemon meets Vampire Survivors
Feb. 22, 2024But not everyone is happy about the announcement
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The developer of catch-‘em-all MMO TemTem has announced it is now working on a co-op roguelike that looks like Pokemon meets Vampire Survivors.
Just like in the beloved Nintendo IP, TemTem features a bunch of collectible creatures that are based on different elements. Several of the creatures we met in the original game will return in TemTem: Swarm, except this time players will be able to team up with up to two friends to take on swarms of Tems together using a variety of strategies and resources.
Some of TemTem’s fans actually weren’t too happy with the announcement, with many arguing that the resources put into the new spin-off game should have been focused on the MMO itself, which has been criticized for lacking content updates for some time. (Some have also pointed to TemTem’s in-game arcade, a collection of minigames that was promised in TemTem’s Kickstarter campaign but has yet to materialize, but TemTem: Swarm seems like a much more ambitious, standalone game never meant to be a freebie.) Several fans have gone as far as saying Swarm looks more like a “cash grab” from the studio than anything.
This backlash, which can be seen in the game’ssubreddit, prompted Crema’s CEO to issue astatementon the game’s official Discord, which reads: “If you really want [the] TemTem franchise to live on and more games to be made, be it spin-offs or TemTem 2, what you would really ask for is for us to stop improving Temtem 1 and start working on something new.”
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