Metroidvania Grappler Rusted Moss Mixes Physics with Creativity

Armed with a bouncy grapple hook and an arsenal of weapons, swing your method by means of desolate landscapes in Rusted Moss, an action-packed metroidvania with advanced and highly effective motion, the place the one restrict is your creativity and talent. 

On this bittersweet story, people are at struggle with the chilly and capricious fairies who’ve invaded their rusting world. You play as Fern, a changeling decided to place an finish to the struggle. Uncover forgotten tales and decide a facet – fae or human? The world of Rusted Moss is impressed by our love of English folktales, which painting fairies as malevolent tricksters quite than light beings.

Traversal is physics-based and designed to be mastered. Apart from the grappling hook, gamers can use juicy gun recoil to spice up their momentum (assume basic FPS motion – rocket leaping and bunny hopping). 

Gameplay may appear diabolical on account of its complexity – gamers will juggle a physics-based grappling hook with quite a lot of weapons – however Rusted Moss has some of the highly effective traversal mechanics in any metroidvania. A participant can break our recreation as long as they’ve the talent, dedication, and creativity to take action.

Developed by my pal (Emlise), my sister (Sunnydaze), and me (Happysquared), we needed to create an uncompromising recreation that prizes participant talent and exploration. Rusted Moss is actually nonlinear. Unlocking new areas doesn’t rely upon discovering a “key” or getting a brand new skill. As a substitute, development in Rusted Moss is set by a participant’s creativity and functionality. 

In a single platforming problem, 5 gamers every discovered a unique answer! 

Did we design that problem to be solved in 5 alternative ways? Under no circumstances. We didn’t design our puzzles to have an “supposed” answer. We needed to encourage gamers to “break” our recreation and present us strikes we didn’t even take into account throughout Rusted Moss’ improvement. The open degree design, mixed with the physics-based motion and momentum, is the right playground for gamers to precise their creativity and talent.

We additionally didn’t wish to restrict our recreation to only our imaginative and prescient of the way it ought to be performed. Earlier than Rusted Moss’ launch, the QA crew discovered a bug that gave gamers an unintentional motion skill we discovered hilarious. We determined to maintain it in. We hope that perceptive gamers who uncover it get as a lot pleasure out of it as we did; it’s a function, not a bug! 

We’ve additionally included extremely customisable accessibility choices so gamers could make the sport simpler (or tougher!). Although we developed Rusted Moss’ default settings to match our personal tastes, we actually didn’t wish to stifle the best way some gamers would possibly desire to expertise our recreation. 

Together with the Xbox launch, Rusted Moss is getting 7-8 hours(!) of extra content material. A lot tougher content material. It’s humorous to consider as a result of Emlise had no plans to develop Rusted Moss right into a recreation as a result of she felt its grappling hook can be too tough for gamers to understand (we ended up having to see stress her into truly making Rusted Moss). In reality, throughout the improvement of Rusted Moss’ base content material she had made an especially tough problem course that was minimize because it was extraordinarily tough. Nevertheless, our playerbase has exceeded all expectations: on account of in style demand, this space will probably be an non-obligatory problem in our main replace. 

So if there’s anyone raging at that content material, please blame our gamers and never us. 

The Xbox launch and replace can even embrace a boss rush mode, two new areas of extra affordable problem (for the not insane gamers), and an unlockable playable character! All of this provides seven to eight extra hours of extra gameplay.

We labored arduous on this replace and hope you get pleasure from it!

Rusted Moss

PLAYISM

☆☆☆☆☆

★★★★★

$19.99

[Metroidvania with a Physics-Based Grapple]
This metroidvania makes use of your grapple and weapons with a full 360° aiming system. The liberty created by these controls creates a easy expertise for customers to really feel in full management of their character. Discover inventive options to versatile traversal challenges, and blast away witches and equipment with exact aiming.

[Now for the Hook…]
The grappling hook is difficult to be taught but rewarding to grasp. This distinctive physics-based elastic grappling hook makes use of your kinetic momentum to propel your character ahead. Just like mountaineering, there’s no set path by means of this melancholic deserted wasteland. Latch onto any moss coated construction and swing your method by means of this rugged terrain.

[Shotgun blasts, Precision shots, Rocket jumps!]
No extra aiming in simply 8 instructions. As a twin-stick shooter, Rusted Moss emphasizes tight and exact gunplay. Rapidly change between your arsenal of weapons to greatest fit your playstyle and state of affairs. Rise up shut and private with a shotgun earlier than grappling away and pulling out a sniper for the killing blow!

[Boss fights!]

Push your gunplay and grappling hook expertise to their limits! From highly effective witches to machine monstrosities, every boss battle throws its personal distinctive problem at you. Dodge swords, keep away from power fields, and blast away at conjured spiders.

[Story]
Journey throughout desolate landscapes drenched in melancholy; witness the remnants of humanity and their rusting iron innovations… Humanity is on the point of collapse and can quickly be invaded by faeries. In a determined bid to outlive, people have empowered their very own witches with stolen fae magic.

However all is just not misplaced, because the people have been deceived – for one among their very own is just not what she appears. The fae have stolen a human child, and changed it with one thing else…

Raised by unsuspecting human mother and father, Fern is a changeling whose true loyalties have emerged. Alongside a mysterious shadow named Puck, she units off on a journey to return fae to the world and finish the Age of Males.

Whose facet will you select – human or fae?