Indie developer TRAGsoft has announced a new Coromon game, but instead of being a sequel, it's a spinoff called Coromon: Rogue Planet. The new game will keep the same monster-capturing structure inspired by Pokemon, but it will shift its gameplay toward a roguelite style with grid-based exploration.
Coromon was released in 2022 for PC and Nintendo Switch. It's a turn-based monster-taming game that adds a few twists to the genre, such as Coromons with different colors based on their potential, stat allocation at each level up, and a very transparent difficulty system. When the game launched on the Switch, players quickly compared Coromon to the older Pokemon games with its pixel art visuals and a top-down camera perspective. Being available on PC, Coromon reached a different audience from Pokemon's.
Coromon's Pokemon-like RPG game innovates but also lags behind in a few ways. Here are which improvements the game still needs.
Now, developer TRAGsoft has announced a new game set in the Coromon universe, but unlike what fans might have expected, it's not a sequel but a spinoff. The newly announced game is called Coromon: Rogue Planet, and although it shares similarities with its predecessor,...
