Lioncode Video games introduced a public alpha playtest for Wildkeepers Rising, an upcoming “bullet heaven” sport set to debut within the spring of 2025.
We’ve seen how nicely bullet hell video games (the place you must dodge bullets) like Enter the Gungeon and Nuclear Throne have carried out over time, however a bullet heaven sport is the place the participant strikes and sprays out bullets at enemies at a fast clip.
Combining the ever-growing energy curve of a survivor-like with the compulsive enjoyable of a creature collector, Wildkeepers sees gamers battling frenetic hordes alongside a solid of highly effective monsters. Gamers can be part of the playtest now to tame a whimsical group of Guardians with hand-drawn artwork impressed by the imagery of Akira Toriyama of Dragon Ball fame.
The staff contains Sergio Garces (founder and lead developer; his earlier sport is Mech Armada), and Lyle Moore because the lead artist. Garces relies in Vancouver, Canada, and Lyle relies in Moncton, New Brunswick, in Canada.
The studio mentioned the gameplay inspiration behind accumulating creatures in a bullet heaven/survivor-like sport is to take the weapons/energy ups of a bullet heaven like Vampire Survivors or Dying Should Die and make them extra fascinating by making them creature companions. The assorted creatures, known as Guardians, additionally tackle totally different roles in your get together impressed by conventional RPG roles, like Tank, Injury, and Help. You acquire as much as 4 of them per run to create synergies and energy them up with gadgets and ranges.
Wildkeepers Rising innovates on the survivor method by turning the participant’s arsenal into a celebration of fierce and lovely monsters. You’ll be able to catch your creatures, construct up your village hub, and expertise the high-stakes story of betrayal and vengeance that threatens your Wildkeeper and their staff. Your job is to tame outlandish Guardians and savage dastardly hordes of monsters infesting the land.
The purpose is to shred hundreds of enemies by creating synergies with totally different tameable Guardians. Different inspirations embody Jim Henson (The Darkish Crystal), and Hayao Miyazaki (Studio Ghibli). As a creature collector, you’ll be able to uncover, tame, and prepare magical beasts, and set off their devastating particular assaults in battle. The sport has roguelite development the place you unlock and purchase upgrades in your village between runs. And it has RPG components, the place you’ll be able to uncover a wealthy world of fantasy heroes and magical monsters and a story of vengeance.
The sport’s Steam web page is stay now; gamers can wishlist Wildkeepers Rising to obtain information on its upcoming launch.
Lioncode Video games is the Canadian indie studio behind turn-based ways Mech Armada. Lioncode’s mission is to create revolutionary experiences by combining fascinating design mechanics into emergent gameplay interactions.
It’s a crowded house, however the studio believes the title will stand out as a bullet heaven with robust character design, and because the first entry within the style to incorporate a narrative and RPG components. There’s a fantasy story to find with heroes known as Wildkeepers defending settlements from a villain driving this upheaval with the assistance of those magical Guardian creatures.
