Dread Delusion developers Lovely Hellplace and their sinister backers at DreadXP have announced Entropy – a turn-based party RPG inspired by classic Japanese RPGs, which retains Dread Delusion’s fungal pixel aesthetics.
Like Final Fantasy 9, it starts with a theatre show. You play a rank thespian initially equipped with a simple prop sword. But then horrible creatures crash the stage, and it’s time to armour up your troupe and quest forth to snuff out a demon incursion. What’s the best Shakespeare line to invoke here, hmm. Ah yes: “target their elemental weaknesses!” Hamlet said that before he shanked Polonius through the curtain. No, don’t google to check, dear reader – I am in haste. Quickly, watch the below trailer.
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“In this dying age, only pockets of humanity remain,” expounds the press release. “There was no grand apocalyptic event to speak of; only the cruel march of time and the inexplicable infertility of the world led us here. Accursed creatures stalk the barren lands between settlements, which are themselves terrible places; squalid, medieval, and mostly ruled by tyrants.” Ah, you’d almost suspect that Lovely Hellspace founder James Wragg lives in England.
Having escaped the backwater-sounding burg of Draenog, you’re left to make sense of an “expansive” world map. I’m interested to know if Entropy will continue with the pocket-sized and Morrowind-flavoured, open world-ish format of Dread Delusion. You’ll gather a party of up to six characters, with the option of hiring mercs if any comrades get slain. There is levelling, needless to say, encompassing stat boosts and unlockable perks.
I’m not wildly convinced by the snippets of battle from the trailer, which seem a bit by-the-numbers, but it’s nice to be engulfed by another dreadful delusion. The new RPG is coming to Steam in 2026.
