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[Mephansteras]

Anyone else tried out Cryptark yet?

Saw One F Jef playing it on his stream the other day and decided to pick it up. It's brutal, but fun.

Kind of a progressive bullet-hell rogue-like sort of thing? Not sure how to categorize it, but you're basically running Salvage missions going deeper into a derelict alien fleet. Money is both how you equip yourself and the loss condition. You start out with $500k to outfit yourself and you make money when you successfully take out the Core defense systems on a derelict so it can be salvaged. If you die, you get hit with a $100k loss fee and you make nothing from that ship. But unless you go below $0 you can just keep going and trying more ships.

As you go along you unlock a slew of various weapons and whatnot to use. Random, too, so you never know what each run it going to make available.

[Gabeux]

Sounds like my sort of thing. 
PTW!

[SharpKris]

PTW
this looks really neat i'd buy it if it wasnt in EA

[teoleo]

i play it: very good game

[Mephansteras]

Got any good strategy suggestions?

So far my strategy has been to focus on getting money for the first stage or two by doing the easiest ship and focusing on getting all bonuses. Next I try to get as much tech as possible, while hopefully at least breaking even on costs. After that...I usually just die because the ships get nasty and I'm bad at avoiding fire. But the overall strategy seems to work pretty well.