Developer and writer Joey Drew Studios has introduced a brand new Flexible sport within the type of Flexible: Lone Wolf, but it surely appears to be like like this one can be taking a barely completely different tack almost about 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 towards “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 towards the “cartoon creeps of the Darkish Puddles”, and it is as much as you to make use of the weapons and sources you have 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 recognized solely because the Ink Demon, and it sounds such as you will not have the ability to combat him. As an alternative, you may should “run and conceal” once 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’ll be able to take a look at the debut trailer for Flexible: Lone Wolf proper right here.
Motion roguelikes (or roguelites) primarily based on widespread 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 exact torch.
In any case, Flexible: Lone Wolf can be launched someday subsequent 12 months for PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Swap, and it will even be accessible on cellular gadgets. Keep tuned for extra on this and all different issues Flexible-related.
