I’ve been keeping half a retina on techo-noir strategy game Re-Legion for a few months now, lured by an elevator pitch that is effectively ‘what if they made a whole game based around Syndicate’s Persuadatron?’ In it, you establish a new opiate of the masses and recruit weak-minded civilians to do your bidding – including, naturally, disputing the preachings of rival such cults. With guns, like.

A black’n’neon palette and veritable flocks of murderous parishioners are a sure fire way to turn cyberpunk-hungry heads, but today’s the day we find out whether it’s our new religion or a false prophet.

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Being a cyberpunk cult leader in Re-Legion doesn’t look easy – for starters, where do you get so many tastefully coordinated purple robes? And then there’s the problem of assembling your flock. Unlike most real-time strategy games, Ice Code’s upcoming RTS (now due in 2019’s first quarter) makes people your primary resource. You can’t just click on a barracks and magically spawn soldiers, right? You’ve got to convert them, then have them pray, train them and then begin upgrading them in worrying ways. Take a peek at some messy laser battles in the trailer below.

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