Pre-order Shoulders of Giants in the present day on the Xbox Retailer, accessible January 26
After nearly three years of growth, we’re overjoyed to announce that Shoulders of Giants is now accessible for pre-order. The sport can be launched on January 26, 2023, on Xbox! Take a look at the most recent trailer above that includes a mixture of single-player and co-op mayhem.
One of many very first concepts we had once we began making Shoulders of Giants, was the silhouette of a smaller character driving on the again of a a lot larger character. After which we thought, what if you happen to might management each of those characters without delay? How would that work? Would that be enjoyable?
It took lots of experimentation and prototyping to search out the candy spot, and an expertise that felt contemporary but acquainted. We thought, what if we cut up up varieties of fight between these characters, one character does all of the melee, and is a giant highly effective mech? And the opposite character perched atop its again a small, nimble, gun wielding frog?
As soon as we discovered this mix, we knew we had discovered the core of the sport. The subsequent query we requested ourselves was, what kind of world would these characters be in? What would their objective be within the sport?
Now we have at all times been enormous followers of science fiction, and knew we wished a world the place there was a darkish pressure these heroes needed to overcome, the traditional theme of darkish versus gentle. However how might we really take this theme and create an interactive manner for the participant to expertise it?
We imagined after an intense boss battle having all the world remodel from barren and darkish, to vibrant, lush and energetic in a cinematic manner. We experimented with real-time methods the participant might do that, and located it to be enjoyable and thrilling and it grew to become a pillar of the gamers skills.
Talking of skills, the final core concept behind the sport was that we wished Shoulders of Giants to really feel like a colourful playground with an enormous arsenal of sci-fi devices and weapons for the participant to discover and tinker with.
Gamers encounter weapons and talents like a firework-shooting grenade launcher, a large stomping shoe, a surfable protect, and rather more. The core fight is all about experimenting with totally different mixtures of apparatus to search out that incredible combo that retains issues feeling contemporary and thrilling.
Whereas fight is the primary gameplay pillar, we knew that we wished a narrative for the sport to happen in and for the characters and world to really feel grounded too. The forces of entropy have taken over the universe, it’s the gamers job to fight this darkish pressure and to revive order and steadiness again to the universe.
As you beat extra ranges and save extra worlds from the forces of entropy, you’ll construct up your warmth meter, permitting you to entry more and more tough ranges. As you go sure warmth thresholds, you’ll unlock particular story boss encounters as you make your technique to the ultimate boss.
Alongside the best way, you’ll purchase new weapons for each Froggie and the heroic Robotic of the Galaxy in addition to new items of armor, XP to spend in your talent tree, and dyes to additional customise the look of your characters.
Whilst you can customise your individual frog and robotic with dozens of cosmetics which can be unlockable in-game, the 4 above can solely be acquired as a bonus for pre-ordering the sport:
This pre-order bonus contains 4 coloration units, so that you and as much as three co-op mates can save the universe in fashion proper from the beginning of the sport.
Even higher, the sport is 20% off throughout this pre-order interval. For extra info, try the sport’s retailer web page and official web site, or be part of our discord.
Shoulders of Giants
Transferring Items Interactive
$19.99
$15.99
Concurrently management a sword-wielding robotic and a gunslinging area frog in Shoulders of Giants, an explosively colourful sci-fi roguelike. Play alone, with a pal, or as a part of a four-person staff, chopping via waves of enemies on a quest to rescue the galaxy!
The forces of Entropy are spreading chaos via the celebs, corrupting dwelling planets and urging on the warmth loss of life of the universe. Led by the psychic Owl, one scrappy staff of area survivors are preventing to revive the steadiness. A mysterious mech! A sharpshooting amphibian! Collectively they need to reduce via waves of enemies and restore gentle and life to the galaxy!
Pre-order the sport for entry to limited-edition dye units with particular visible results. Dazzle your mates!
