Developer and writer Joey Drew Studios has introduced a brand new Flexible recreation within the type of Flexible: Lone Wolf, however it seems to be like this one shall be taking a barely totally different tack with reference to 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 rising odds”.
Exploring the twisting hallways of the Flexible collection’ 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 assets 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 identified solely because the Ink Demon, and it sounds such as you will not be capable of combat him. As an alternative, you may must “run and conceal” while you hear the “beating of his ink coronary heart”.
It is a shift away from Flexible‘s conventional first-person horror puzzling, however it seems to be like the sport nonetheless retains the signature environment of the Flexible collection. You’ll be able to take a look at the debut trailer for Flexible: Lone Wolf proper right here.
Motion roguelikes (or roguelites) based mostly on standard 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 individual torch.
In any case, Flexible: Lone Wolf shall be launched someday subsequent 12 months for PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Swap, and it will even be obtainable on cell gadgets. Keep tuned for extra on this and all different issues Flexible-related.