Factsheet

Developer

Monothetic LLC
Based in San Francisco, CA

Founded

1 January 2013

Website

monothetic.com
beacon.monothetic.com

Press Contact

jrussell@monothetic.com

Business Contact

kzipf@monothetic.com

Social

twitter.com/monothetic
facebook.com/monothetic
youtube.com/monothetic

Soundtrack

Soundcloud

Releases

Black Snow
Beacon

Address

5200 Adeline Street Unit 473
Emeryville, CA 94608

Phone

US +630 715 3304
UK +44 7539 917610
THA +66 86 623 8202

Overview

In Beacon you play as interstellar mercenary Freja Akiyama, stuck in an endless search for her distress beacon after crash-landing onto an unknown planet. With your Clone Bay stuck in an automatic printing cycle, death is only a minor setback. Each life you’ll not only scavenge for weapons and items to help you; you’ll also be collecting DNA from the enemies you defeat. After your inevitable death, you’re given the opportunity to alter your genome, changing your statistics and gaining gameplay-altering physical mutations for your next clone's life.

In the search for your beacon, new questions arise; just how many clones of Freja are there? How long has she been stuck in an infinite cycle of survival? How much of her humanity will be sacrificed before escaping?

Beacon will be released on Windows on Steam, Itch.io, and Utomik.

Video


Teaser trailer for Beacon's full release, created November 2021.

Images

Logo / Icon


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Selected Press

Xbox/ See what's new from ID@Xbox E3 2016

Game Informer/ The Best Indie Games Of GDC 2016

Xbox Wire/ Explore Alien Worlds and Cheat Death in Beacon for Xbox One

Rock, Paper, Shotgun/ Premature Evaluation: Beacon

PC Gamer/ Sci-fi Roguelike Beacon is all kinds of stylish

/ Science is messy and cloning's unlimited in twin-stick shooter Beacon

Kotaku/ In Beacon, Death Is A Small Victory

IGN UK/ Beacon puts a new twist on the Action Roguelike

Eurogamer/ Gorgeous cyberpunk shooter Beacon is about dying to survive

The Sixth Axis/ Beacon splices DNA, looting and tentacles in the next roguelite you need to play

Here are words/ The Folks at Monothetic Discuss Beacon, a Rogue-like with a Sci-Fi Twist

Team / Contact

Michael Corsaro Programming

Bovornrat Kasemkamolkij CFO

Website

Russ Briggeman Animation

Website

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