GearHead: Arena
The original GearHead mecha roguelike. Build a pilot, explore a post-apocalyptic world, and take customized robots into tactical fights.
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GearHead: Arena gives you a character to build and a world to get lost in. You can explore towns, talk to people, take jobs, and fight both on foot and inside a mecha. The game combines character skills, machine customization, and a campaign whose story is assembled differently from one run to the next. Is this the original GearHead? Yes. Arena is the first GearHead RPG, separate from GearHead 2 and GearHead Caramel. This listing contains the graphical SDL Windows edition, not the ASCII-only release. Is it free? Yes. The direct download is the original 1.310 Windows ZIP published by Joseph Hewitt. Its older interface rewards a look at the included documentation, especially the movement keys and configuration options. The video is the developer's look back at Arena. Screenshots show the graphical game. This is a legacy release; current Windows compatibility has not been gameplay-tested by NeonRoof. License and credits GearHead: Arena is distributed under LGPL 2.1. The GearHead universe is copyright Joseph Hewitt; that copyright is not a public-domain dedication. Original title artwork and screenshots are credited to Joseph Hewitt and the GearHead contributors, used unchanged, with the upstream license and source linked. Downloads come directly from the original project. NeonRoof does not host or repackage the game files. Independent catalog listing. NeonRoof is not affiliated with or endorsed by this project's developers. Downloads are provided by the project's official distribution source.
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