Pyre is the third game from Supergiant Games
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Supergiant Games aims for story-driven originality in its third game, Pyre

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Supergiant Games has thrived on its ability to create games that are like no other. And it has done that again with its demo of Pyre, a fantasy role-playing game with a very unusual combat system.

Pyre has an unusual two-dimensional art style with a lot of text-based dialogue. It is deliberately old school in its approach to graphics, but it has gameplay that is very original. Pyre is the third game created by San Francisco-based Supergiant, which also had big hits with Bastion and Transistor.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.