Did the combat hold up?

Were they pleased to be dragged into a co-op session with me?

Yes… and no.

A massive crow boss looms over three players in Inkbound.

It’s quite likeMarvel Snap, in that sense.

It’s fast and fluid and ensures that most runs don’t drag on for too long.

We had no idea what upgrades we’d all invested in.

Cover image for YouTube video

To be fair, this was almost entirely our own fault.

Thing is, are you prepared to discuss everything in quite a lot of detail, all the time?

For some, the answer will be a definitive “Yes, that’s fine by me”.

A Magma Miner takes on an anthropomorphic bull boss in Inkbound.

The game’s playable on your lonesome, though, so there’s always that option.

That is, if we managed to get our heads around the game’s overlapping area-of-effect markers.

Fights take place in a circular arena, with a poisonous fog that closes in as they progress.

Ollie, James, and Ed fight a Rhinferno boss in Inkbound, with purple mist and markers filling the arena.

Despite all that, though, we did manage to make it work and complete a run together.

We genuinely had a lot of fun!

Ollie, James, and Ed fight some soldiers in a marker-filled arena in Inkbound.

Ollie, James, and Ed fight a mixture of enemies with markers covering the arena in Inkbound.

Ollie, James, and Ed fight some rotund purple enemies in a purple marker-filled arena in Inkbound.