Different weapons and skills can improve your range of sight and the accuracy of your shooting, but a cautious approach is almost always the best one. Fog of war is well employed to keep you on your toes and line of sight plays a major role in both discovering enemies and also defeating them safely. It has all the ominous corridors and barely lit corners of the space horror genre. A wide range of difficulty settings are available but even the easiest one is a challenge. There are seed codes to replay a particular setup, but this prevents achievements so is best used to practice and get a feel for the game. Skills, items, experience and progress are completely lost upon death and with each run being procedurally generated you cannot even learn the best paths through. Unlike many more popular roguelikes, such as Hades where iterative progress is continued across multiple runs, Jupiter Hell goes for a more traditional and unforgiving style of permadeath. While this succeeds in giving them some extra sense of individuality, I found it broke the mood at times. The tactical action is also accompanied by an appropriate thrash metal soundtrack – in the early levels, at least – though where the Doomguy is largely mute, your character here is closer to Duke Nukem in their foul mouthed tirades. Such a description hardly does the game justice as that basic outline could apply to many titles, but here the influence is clear and deliberate. You play as a lone soldier fighting off hordes of demonic enemies with a range of weapons, while also searching for keys that unlock doors.
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