Next Up Hero

Next Up Hero is a action dungeon crawl video game developed by New York indie studio Digital Continue and published by Aspyr. It was released for Steam Early Access in January 18, 2018, with a full release on June 28, 2018 alongside the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions. It will also be released for Nintendo Switch in 2018.

Gameplay
Next Up Hero is an action dungeon crawl game video game featuring a cast of eclectic heroes with special abilities who will all take turns trying to conquer tough monsters. Death results in the next hero being able to resurrect their fallen brethren as an AI companion, called an "Echo," to do battle alongside them.

Development
The game is being developed in Unity. Digital Continue was founded by 5th Cell alumnus, Joe Tringali and describes Next Up Hero as an “asynchronous co-op, 2D/3D orthographic projection with isometric angle twin-stick arcade game played on server-hosted sessions".

Next Up Hero was announced at RTX in Austin, TX on July 14, 2017.

A closed beta was available until January 10, 2018 on Steam for Windows. The game launched in Early Access on January 11, 2018 on Steam for Windows.