Developer and writer Joey Drew Studios has introduced a brand new Flexible recreation within the type of Flexible: Lone Wolf, but it surely appears to be like like this one might be taking a barely completely different tack on the subject of style.
The place earlier Flexible video games had been (by and huge) first-person horror affairs, Flexible: Lone Wolf is a roguelike that pits its titular canine Boris in opposition to “endlessly generated corridors” and “ever growing odds”.
Exploring the twisting hallways of the Flexible sequence’ fictional Joey Drew Studios (for which the developer can also be named), Boris will want his wits about him as “monsters and obstacles emerge from each route”.
As Boris explores, he’ll come up in opposition to the “cartoon creeps of the Darkish Puddles”, and it is as much as you to make use of the weapons and assets you’ve got gathered, in addition to “the intelligent use of harmful traps”, to do away with them.
Moreover, you may be chased by a really terrifying foe identified solely because the Ink Demon, and it sounds such as you will not be capable to combat him. As a substitute, you may must “run and conceal” while you hear the “beating of his ink coronary heart”.
It is a shift away from Flexible’s conventional first-person horror puzzling, but it surely appears to be like like the sport nonetheless retains the signature ambiance of the Flexible sequence. You possibly can take a look at the debut trailer for Flexible: Lone Wolf proper right here.
Motion roguelikes (or roguelites) primarily based on standard franchises have gotten more and more prevalent. Within the final couple of years alone, we have seen the likes of The Rogue Prince of Persia, Callisto Protocol spinoff Redacted, and Misplaced in Random: The Everlasting Die carrying that individual torch.
In any case, Flexible: Lone Wolf might be launched someday subsequent yr for PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Change, and it will even be out there on cell units. Keep tuned for extra on this and all different issues Flexible-related.
