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Upcoming indie shooter Sulfur has you taking roguelike shots at an ever-shifting labyrinth of beasties, goblins, ghouls, and baddies as a gun-toting priest with a talking amulet and a drive for revenge. It's a cool cel-shaded mix of old-school shooter and roguelike with a bit of platforming thrown in for good measure.

Sulfur's big twist is that it's not just a go-until-you-die Roguelike: It's secretly an extraction shooter as well: You want to abort each run just before you go [[link]] dry on health and ammunition so that you can keep as much [[link]] loot as possible to spend at the shops and fill your reserves between runs. 

I wasn't entirely sure about that aspect until I tried the demo, which made me realize it's more compelling than I thought. Tucking away all those spare molotov cocktails meant something real pretty fast—just going into a new run with an "oh crap" button you saved from [[link]] the run before feels good.

PC Gamer's Morgan Park as immediately sold on Sulfur after looking at it last year, and I'm pretty well intrigued after playing the demo. I especially liked the gun-tweaking aspect of finding oddball extended magazines, sights, and various bolt-ons for your guns that gave bonus effects. That and optimizing your guy by putting on a swimming fin and also a cool sneaker.

Sulfur is developed by Perfect Random and will release this year on Steam, which is also where you can try the demo.