New dark fantasy role-playing game Entropy has made a strong early impression on Steam, earning a 94% positive user review score shortly after launch. Its strong reception suggests Steam has gained another compelling turn-based RPG to offer to fans of the genre open to the early access release model.
Entropy is the latest release from Brighton, England-based indie studio Lovely Hellplace, founded in 2018 and best known for the 2024 open-world RPG Dread Delusion. The developer also contributed Shatter to the horror-focused Dread X Collection and created the launcher for Dread X Collection 2, giving its catalog a fairly consistent taste for retro visuals, strange worlds, and horror-inflected fantasy. Entropy keeps much of that identity, but while exploring a different kind of gameplay compared to the studio's previous RPG.
Where Dread Delusion was a first-person open-world RPG with real-time combat, Entropy is a tactical, party-based game inspired by a variety of classic JRPGs. Players control a party of up to six characters, recruit mercenaries to replace fallen companions, and develop their characters by managing and investing in stats, perks, equipment, and spells. It is therefore as much of an RPG as Dread Delusion, but...
