← All storiesGamingDeveloping story The Sega Saturn era officially returns with a brand-new Switch 2 game
The cult-classic Culdcept series is back If you’re looking for something new to play on Switch 2 this week, you’ve got more options than you can handle. Denshattack!, D-topia, Moss: The Forgotten Relic, and more lead a busy week for indie games. Dig deep through the stack of new releases, though, and you’ll find an unexpected retro revival in the mix: Culdcept Begins. I can’t blame you if you’ve never heard of Culdcept before and think I’m making something up to mess with you. The long-running deckbuilding series is about as niche as games get. While Culdcept Begins is meant to serve as an entry point for new players, its existence still begs for a crash course in 30 years of gaming history. Developed by OmiyaSoft, the series made its debut in Japan on Sega Saturn in 1997. It was a genre hybrid that combined deckbuilding and RPG elements into a dice-based board game. It quickly got an expanded PlayStation port in 1999, and a proper sequel, Culdcept Second, for Dreamcast in 2001. The series didn’t make its way outside Japan until 2003, when Culdcept Second received a localized PlayStation 2 port. Its history after that point was a little sporadic. The series got an Xbox 360-exclusiv

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