In case you cherished chopping bits of fruit and driving a jetpack in your cellphone, you then’ll love… accumulating treasure from procedurally generated undersea, eldritch-horror stuffed caves.
Keep in mind Fruit Ninja? It was a easy, very arcadey kind of sport that was all the craze within the distant yr of two thousand and ten, a time when cell video games had been extra tiny timewasters slightly than full-blown experiences. The creator of that sport, Luke Muscat, later went on to make one other very talked-about cell title, Jetpack Joyride, a sport with a bit of bit extra substance than slicing up your 5 a day, once more a replayable, arcadey sort of sport. Neither of them would possible be very talked-about right now sadly, because it’s much more tough to have a breakout cell hit, to not point out sure genres dominating digital storefronts. One such style is roguelikes, and funnily sufficient, Muscat has truly made one such sport, Feed the Deep, a horror roguelite all about exploring deepsea caves (thanks, GamesRadar).
“Feed the Deep is a compulsive lovecraftian roguelike impressed by the likes of Dome Keeper and Spelunky,” the sport’s about part on Steam explains. “Dive into an ever-changing system of undersea caves. Acquire sources that may be traded for upgrades and gadgets. Discover ever deeper, managing darkish areas, restricted oxygen, and hostile wildlife, and full your mission to Feed the Deep.” Muscat additionally notes that this new title was “constructed virtually completely” on their very own, as a “couple of years in the past I made a decision I wished to strive the final word sport dev problem and make a sport fully solo.”
Muscat has additionally been documenting the method of constructing the sport on YouTube, with a number of movies going into the event of the sport (and even a pair about designing Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride, if you need a nostalgia journey).
Feed the Deep is at present set to launch Q3 on Steam, and you’ll wishlist it right here.