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 as regards to style.
The place earlier Flexible video games have been (by and enormous) 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 be named), Boris will want his wits about him as “monsters and obstacles emerge from each course”.
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 sources you’ve got gathered, in addition to “the intelligent use of harmful traps”, to eliminate 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 battle him. As a substitute, you may must “run and conceal” whenever 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 environment of the Flexible sequence. You may try the debut trailer for Flexible: Lone Wolf proper right here.
Motion roguelikes (or roguelites) based mostly on fashionable 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 specific torch.
In any case, Flexible: Lone Wolf might be launched someday subsequent yr for PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Swap, and it will even be accessible on cellular units. Keep tuned for extra on this and all different issues Flexible-related.