GamingBolt checked out Below:

Below Review - The Final Verdict

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The rogue-like Below has been released today:

BELOW

Test your adventurer mettle against The Isle’s procedural subterranean labyrinths. Explore a large, interconnected underworld crawling with cunning wildlife, deadly traps and stalked by a shadowy presence. Survive the perils of The Depths and unearth what lies below... or die trying..

Below is a procedural terrarium filled with life, mystery and death.

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EXPLORE

Explore the vast subterranean underworld of The Isle: a dangerous, unfathomable deep. Choose your path through the randomly generated labyrinth crawling with deadly monstrosities, traps and hazardous environments. Perma-death awaits at every false step, and there are no hints to guide you…

SURVIVE

Spelunking through The Depths of BELOW is a treacherous endeavour, with death around every corner. The world is alive with flora & fauna, and there are many ways to scavenge materials and harvest ingredients to create life-saving remedies or useful survival tools…

DISCOVER

What lies below? Only the bravest wanderers will find out. The Depths are filled with secrets and danger. BELOW embraces the idea that players enjoy discovering secret areas, finding hidden passageways and unravelling the deepest mysteries hidden in the darkness…

The creative director of Below played the first 13 minutes of the game and spoke to IGN.

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Yes, Below is FINALLY here! Creative Director Kris Piotrowski walks us through the opening minutes of the loooooong-awaited Zelda-ish roguelike and discusses what the end of the development journey has been like for him.

Below will be released December 14th on Steam and Xbox One.

/// Take a solitary journey through the haunted depths of a forbidden isle. BELOW launches on Xbox One & Steam on December 14th, 2018. Explore. Survive. Discover... Soon.
Wishlist BELOW on Steam here: https://t.co/ND7glN9FR4 pic.twitter.com/P3GuonY6Wl

— CAPY (@CAPYGAMES) December 6, 2018

Dualshockers preview Below and think it will be worth the wait.

Out of everything I saw in Below, the one thing I cannot get over is the art style and aesthetic that it presents. The sound design and music are expertly crafted and enhance the experience significantly. Both of these things also add to the isolationist feel that the game is going for. I had major flashbacks to Hyper Light Drifter while playing Below, which is very high praise from me. This isolationist style of play is even further enhanced by the HUD, which is very minimalistic and allows the emphasis to be on the world and rather than your health bar or items.

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Below maybe releasing this year according to PC Gamer.

Depending on how you want to parse the semantics of that promise, it may or may not have been broken by creative director Kris Piotrowski, who told Engadget that Below maybe—probably, even—will be out this year.   

"I still can't say the exact date, but we are aiming for this year—although we've said that over and over, so..." Piotrowski said. "We have all the systems in place and now we're kind of going deeper and deeper through the world, and polishing and trying to just get it all packaged up."

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@PC Gamer Capybara Games have teased their new roguelike Below. The game puts exploration to the fore and you are very vulnerable in combat. Check out the games website for more.

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It's been a couple of years since our hands-on with Below, but even then the game sounded wonderfully intriguing. Exploration is at the core of the experience, but you are not a terribly durable explorer, and as is often the way with roguelikes, combat will be very dangerous. It looks fantastic-not retro, like Capy's last game, Sword & Sworcery: EP, but very stylish-and, assuming the audio design hasn't taken a long walk off a short pier since we tried it (and this trailer suggests it has not), should sound great too.