Armed with a bouncy grapple hook and an arsenal of weapons, swing your means by way of desolate landscapes in Rusted Moss, an action-packed metroidvania with complicated and highly effective motion, the place the one restrict is your creativity and talent.
On this bittersweet story, people are at warfare 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 warfare. Uncover forgotten tales and decide a aspect – fae or human? The world of Rusted Moss is impressed by our love of English folktales, which painting fairies as malevolent tricksters relatively than mild beings.
Traversal is physics-based and designed to be mastered. Except for the grappling hook, gamers can use juicy gun recoil to spice up their momentum (suppose traditional FPS motion – rocket leaping and bunny hopping).
Gameplay may appear diabolical as a consequence of its complexity – gamers will juggle a physics-based grappling hook with a wide range of weapons – however Rusted Moss has one of the crucial highly effective traversal mechanics in any metroidvania. A participant can break our recreation as long as they’ve the talent, willpower, 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 on discovering a “key” or getting a brand new capacity. 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 special answer!
Did we design that problem to be solved in 5 other ways? By no means. We didn’t design our puzzles to have an “meant” answer. We needed to encourage gamers to “break” our recreation and present us strikes we didn’t even think about throughout Rusted Moss’ growth. The open degree design, mixed with the physics-based motion and momentum, is the proper playground for gamers to precise their creativity and talent.
We additionally didn’t need to restrict our recreation to simply our imaginative and prescient of the way it needs to be performed. Earlier than Rusted Moss’ launch, the QA group discovered a bug that gave gamers an unintentional motion capacity 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 more durable!). Although we developed Rusted Moss’ default settings to match our personal tastes, we actually didn’t need to stifle the best way some gamers may choose to expertise our recreation.
Together with the Xbox launch, Rusted Moss is getting 7-8 hours(!) of further content material. A lot more durable 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 troublesome for gamers to know (we ended up having to look stress her into truly making Rusted Moss). In truth, through the growth of Rusted Moss’ base content material she had made an especially troublesome problem course that was reduce because it was extraordinarily troublesome. Nevertheless, our playerbase has exceeded all expectations: as a consequence of well-liked demand, this space can be an non-compulsory 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 may also embrace a boss rush mode, two new areas of extra affordable issue (for the not insane gamers), and an unlockable playable character! All of this provides seven to eight extra hours of further gameplay.
We labored arduous on this replace and hope you take pleasure in 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 tough 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 way of this melancholic deserted wasteland. Latch onto any moss coated construction and swing your means by way 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 swap between your arsenal of weapons to greatest fit your playstyle and scenario. 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 combat throws its personal distinctive problem at you. Dodge swords, keep away from vitality 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 getting ready to 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 shouldn’t be misplaced, because the people have been deceived – for considered one of their very own shouldn’t be 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 aspect will you select – human or fae?
