Rhythm-based roguelike Crypt of the NecroDancer launches on Early Access

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Award-winning rhythm-based roguelike Crypt of the NecroDancer has just launched on PC, Mac and Linux via Steam Early Access, where it's going for £10.99 / $14.99.
The delightfully titled game tasks players with dungeon crawling through a proceedurally-generated environment where they can only exert actions in response to the beat. As such, it's turn-based, but your turns last less than a second. Think Beat Sneak Bandit if it were a roguelike rather than a stealthy puzzler.
Developer Brace Yourself Games' peculiar genre mashup can be played with conventional controls, like a gamepad or mouse & keyboard combination, but its grid-based movement system is designed to work with a USB dance pad ala DDR. It even has a co-op mode if you wish to play it by dancing with a friend.
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