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超好评独立游戏《怪物列车》开发商Shiny Shoe将于今年推出他们的下一款作品《墨水一族》（Inkbound）。《墨水一族》是一款网络战术RPG作品，拥有快节奏战斗、合作玩法和无限重复可玩的肉鸽机制。
本周末，开发团队为《墨水一族》启动技术测试，让玩家体验这款尚处于开发阶段的游戏作品。在此次测试中，玩家可与好友组队探索世界，并共同体验《墨水一族》ARPG风格的战斗模式。
感兴趣的玩家可《墨水一族》Steam页面申请参与测试。此次测试仅持续到1月23日。
Shiny Shoe, the developer of Monster Train—our pick as the best card game of 2020 (opens in new tab), by the way—announced last year that it's working on a new tactical roguelike RPG called Inkbound (opens in new tab). It's set to come out later this year, and this weekend you can get a look at what it's all about in a playtest that's open to everyone. To get into the Inkbound playtest, just head around to Steam (opens in new tab) and click the button to request access, which will be granted on the spot. It's about a 1GB download, and then you're off to the races. I played around with the test build myself for a few minutes and it looks potentially promising: The underlying mechanics are familiar—from a central hub, you make runs through semi-randomized linear levels, taking on numerous setpiece battles along the way—but the game world is very pretty, and the story has me curious too. "Discover the magical Atheneum and the infinite worlds contained within to protect it and become the fabled Inkbound," the Steam page says. "Or break free from your station and unravel the real story behind your creation." Colour me intrigued! Also interesting is the combat, which unlike many ARPGs is turn-based rather than real time, making for slower, more relaxed fantasy throwdowns. Even though it's a very different sort of game than Monster Train, I can see it having similar appeal: Evan said in his 2020 game of the year assessment that Monster Train plays more like a board game than most digital CCGs, which "forces you to think carefully (but not agonizingly so) about the chronological flow of enemies, where you want to plug a thorny Animus who hurls damage at the back line, or toss down a certain status effect-inducing defender to debuff enemies." There looks to be a lot of that in Inkbound, too. The Inkbound playtest is live now on Steam and will run until January 23. Have a look at some screens below.