Another indie game that’s coming out for one of Sony’s consoles was shown on stage today at Eurogamer Expo: a top-down roguelike advertised as Wasteland Kings but now renamed to Nuclear Throne.

In a talk that also covered how the developing studio Vlambeer had come to be and gotten to where they currently were, Rami Ismail revealed that Nuclear Throne was a rebuild of a game the studio had previously been working on and that the new concept had been developed during the Mojam charity event earlier in the year. Various different builds of the game at different stages of completion were showed off, some made purely to test out later-game concepts such as higher-level monsters. The game itself is set in a post-apocalypic world populated by mutants of many various appearances and abilities. The aim of the game is to fight your way through levels, using many different weapons (from guns to grenade launchers) to defeat the bosses and eventually find a fabled throne that would make you the ‘ruler’ of the wasteland you live in.

There are a number of playable mutant characters to be chosen from (including one who is a throwback to a boss from this game’s previous form as Gun Godz) and all of them have a different useful ability such as being able to make special high-powered shots with weapons that consume 2x the ammo to turning into a crystal that reflects enemy shots. There are also tiny green ‘nuclear’ pick-ups that allow you to upgrade your character through ‘mutations’ once you’ve gathered enough of them, after which you’ll be given a choice of 4 random upgrades to choose from. Vlambeer said that they didn’t want to have the traditional ‘cool-down’ on abilities either, instead choosing to make each ability have a positive and negative to them. No two games will be the same thanks to the random mutations offered each time and the randomly generated levels of the game.

Nuclear Throne already has had a release in its Wasteland Kings Mojam version through Humble and versions are coming soon for the PC, Mac Playstation 4 and Playstation Vita.