Providence

Providence is a tag-third-person action roguelike. You play as one player in two bodies: a robot cowboy and the giant fallen angel he dug out of a scrapyard destined to make it back to heaven.

This is a playtest

This is the first build anyone outside the project has played. It's one stage and one boss.

What's in this build

• The Scrapyard, built new from a seed every time you land. Find the gate, light it, and hold its light while the machines come at you.
• The Yardmaster, a scrapyard crane that fights back, and the stage's boss.
• The Cowboy: revolver, fan the hammer, lasso, Dead-eye and a dodge roll.
• The Angel: sword combo, heavy cleave, wing dash, Descent and a wing parry.
• Robots built out of parts. Her sword cracks their plates, his bullets hit the crits underneath, and limbs you shoot off fall off. Six kinds of robot, plus elites.
• 63 items to stack across both of them.
• The Between, a dream you rest in between stages, with a trading post where you spend scrip. It's the only place you can save and quit.
• Difficulty climbs the longer you take. Casual, Standard and Hardcore modes, and an Assist mode.
• Every control can be rebound, on keyboard and mouse or gamepad.

Controls

A gamepad is recommended. Everything can be rebound in Settings.

	Gamepad	Keyboard and mouse
Move / look	Left stick / right stick	WASD / mouse
Primary (revolver / sword)	RT	Left mouse
Secondary (fan the hammer / heavy cleave)	LT	Right mouse
Utility (lasso / wing dash)	RB	F
Special (Dead-eye / Descent)	LB	R
Defense (dodge roll / wing parry)	B	Shift
Swap	Y	Q
Jump	A	Space
Sprint	Left stick click	Ctrl
Interact	X	E
Pause	Start	Esc

Installing

• Windows: unzip the whole folder and run Providence.exe. The build isn't code-signed, so Windows may warn you: choose More info, then Run anyway.
• macOS: unzip and move Providence.app anywhere. The first time, right-click it and choose Open, because macOS doesn't know the developer yet.