Armed with a bouncy grapple hook and an arsenal of weapons, swing your means by means 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 ability.
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 facet – fae or human? The world of Rusted Moss is impressed by our love of English folktales, which painting fairies as malevolent tricksters somewhat than light 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 basic 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 quite a lot 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 ability, willpower, and creativity to take action.
Developed by my pal (Emlise), my sister (Sunnydaze), and me (Happysquared), we wished to create an uncompromising recreation that prizes participant ability and exploration. Rusted Moss is really nonlinear. Unlocking new areas doesn’t rely upon discovering a “key” or getting a brand new capacity. As a substitute, development in Rusted Moss is decided by a participant’s creativity and functionality.
In a single platforming problem, 5 gamers every discovered a distinct answer!
Did we design that problem to be solved in 5 alternative ways? By no means. We didn’t design our puzzles to have an “supposed” answer. We wished to encourage gamers to “break” our recreation and present us strikes we didn’t even contemplate throughout Rusted Moss’ improvement. The open degree design, mixed with the physics-based motion and momentum, is the right playground for gamers to precise their creativity and ability.
We additionally didn’t wish to restrict our recreation to only our imaginative and prescient of the way it ought to be performed. Earlier than Rusted Moss’ launch, the QA crew 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 wish to stifle the way in which some gamers would possibly favor to expertise our recreation.
Alongside with the Xbox launch, Rusted Moss is getting 7-8 hours(!) of extra 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 could be too troublesome for gamers to know (we ended up having to look strain her into really making Rusted Moss). Actually, through the improvement of Rusted Moss’ base content material she had made a particularly troublesome problem course that was minimize because it was extraordinarily troublesome. Nevertheless, our playerbase has exceeded all expectations: as a consequence of common demand, this space shall 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 cheap problem (for the not insane gamers), and an unlockable playable character! All of this provides seven to eight extra hours of extra gameplay.
We labored onerous on this replace and hope you get pleasure from 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 clean 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 difficult to study but rewarding to grasp. This distinctive physics-based elastic grappling hook makes use of your kinetic momentum to propel your character ahead. Much like mountain climbing, there’s no set path by means of this melancholic deserted wasteland. Latch onto any moss lined construction and swing your means by means 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 finest 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 abilities 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 power 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 is just not misplaced, because the people had been deceived – for one among their very own is just not what she appears. The fae have stolen a human child, and changed it with one thing else…
Raised by unsuspecting human dad and mom, 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 facet will you select – human or fae?