It’s unhealthy sufficient to finish up within the afterlife – and doubtless a lot worse to right away be banished on arrival! No much less while you’re only a cute little kitty. Crypt Custodian is the most recent sport from veteran developer Kyle Thompson, the developer of prior titles Sheepo and Islets. Simply as together with his different titles, Crypt Custodian is a top-down metroidvania with an additional concentrate on tight fight and motion, and represents a enjoyable center floor between quirky, meticulously crafted humor and visible aptitude subsequent to tight, action-packed gameplay. You’ll play as Pluto, a mischievous cat-turned-janitor, and in your afterlife exile, you’ll discover an unlimited panorama crammed with curious and enjoyable denizens, hidden secrets and techniques, and a seemingly infinite quantity of nooks and curiosities.
However wait, how did this cute little kitty find yourself as a janitor? And why are there so many wayward and – at occasions – hostile spirits within the afterlife to start with? Enter Kendra, the guardian of the afterlife. Upon your surprising entrance into this realm, you’ve got a somewhat disastrous assembly together with her – the place you’re banished to being a janitor…without end! You’ll suppose that is your mistake alone, however after assembly different denizens of the realm…let’s simply say you aren’t positive anymore. Absolutely there’s a mistake if all these cute little animals are in the identical realm as all these evil spirits!
Surprisingly, the afterlife is sort of the damaging place. Fortunately, as a sly and nimble kitty, you’ve got plenty of talents at your disposal to assist navigate and subjugate threats! Motion and fight are on the coronary heart of Crypt Custodian’s design philosophy. Drawing off Kyle Thompson’s previous titles, motion is very fluid, tight, and intuitive. Fight is easy to select up however crammed with nuance and quirk that makes it rewarding to grasp. Actions and assaults flexibly hyperlink collectively to create a splendidly fluid system of leaping, dashing, rolling, attacking, and extra. You’ll additionally decide up tons of particular talents alongside the best way to not solely develop fight capabilities, but in addition develop motion ones as nicely.
The last word check of fight is in fact what you’re truly preventing – enemies and managers – and Crypt Custodian is stuffed with uncommon and inventive hostile denizens. The afterlife is a really unusual place, and what you’re preventing actually displays that! You’ll be preventing the somewhat unusual hostile spirits that inhabit the corners of this odd realm. Golems, witches, ghouls, outsized bugs, animal-looking abominations, wayward vagrants and…a large pot stuffed with spiders? For sure each enemy within the sport is designed to be distinctive, with particular person behaviors and transfer units that can all the time preserve you in your toes…or paws!
However not everybody within the afterlife is hostile (or impolite) fortunately! In actual fact there’s numerous pleasant faces you’ll encounter too – a few of which share your unlucky destiny. As you journey all through the realm, you’ll typically end up taking refuge in a cute little bar run by a giant chicken. As you meet varied mates and acquittances scattered over the world, some will come again to take refuge right here themselves. You can too purchase objects, modify your stock, and take a look at unlockables right here. There’s only one factor although…don’t ask what’s within the VIP room!
Developed by Kyle Thompson and ported to Xbox and printed by Prime Hat Studios, Crypt Custodian launches on August 27 at 12pm EST / 9am PST / 4pm UTC on Xbox Collection X|S and Xbox One, with a 15% launch low cost till September tenth.
Crypt Custodian
Prime Hat Studios, Inc.
Sweep up the afterlife as Pluto the cat on this charming motion journey/Metroidvania about life, relationships, and transferring on.
Step into the footwear of Pluto, a mischievous cat who has simply died, and landed within the afterlife’s palace. After a quick and disastrous assembly with the Afterlife Guardian – Kendra – you are banished from the palace and sentenced to scrub… FOREVER!!!
Discover the huge grounds that encompass the palace, battle beasts along with your trusty broom, and acquire new talents to develop your world. Hang around with doomed ghosts, resolve puzzles, uncover secrets and techniques, and… manage an ambush to interrupt again into the palace!
