Our tiny workforce put out Shoulders of Giants earlier this yr, and whereas the response from Xbox gamers has truly been higher than we may have ever anticipated (on the time of writing our consumer overview rating is above 4.5!) there’s nonetheless one million issues we’re dedicated to bettering.
That first large set of enhancements debuts in our new The World is Alive 1.2 content material replace. Take a look at the trailer above and hold studying to our strategy to holding updates contemporary for our co-op roguelike.
I’m a agency believer that the surest manner to enhance a murals is to search out its weakest components and attempt to flip these into its strongest. That’s precisely what we aimed to do on this long-coming replace, working tirelessly to merge participant suggestions with our personal to make some important adjustments to our already-released title. Right here’s the story:
At launch, our workforce was content material with Shoulders of Giants’s improvisational fight and strong development system. When the evaluations began coming in, nonetheless, one pattern emerged: gamers really feel the worlds you discover and the mission goals you undertake can get type of same-y after a dozen hours.
All of us cope with criticism in a different way, however to me the criticism that actually will get into your head isn’t the loud, unhinged, and hateful form–it’s the refined form that claims one thing you understand deep down is true.
We, and our followers, each wished to take the extent environments and mission sorts to the next tier with our first large content material replace. We began by taking our less-loved mission sorts and redid them from scratch.
Our combat-focused “butterfly collector” mode (belief me, the title is sensible in case you’ve performed the sport) turned an exploration-heavy “hunt” mission with a deal with taking over more durable foes with technique. Our very one-note “storm” mission kind that after challenged gamers to run round in a darkish procedural world by means of a dense thunderstorm in search of an exit is now a way more guided expertise constructed round defending climate probes from enemy onslaughts–for many of our workforce, that is now their favourite mission to play.
However that wasn’t sufficient, to make the surfaces of those procedural planets extra meaningfully distinctive between runs, we’ve launched a brand new Planet Anomaly system that may fully change how ranges behave–including meteor storms, indoor enviornment battles, low gravity fights that take you into outer area, and a few extraordinarily goofy enterprise that I can’t spoil right here.
We’re extraordinarily excited to get this out to our followers. This replace is just the start! To maintain updated with our roadmap, take a look at the sport’s retailer web page and official web site, or be part of our discord.
Shoulders of Giants
Transferring Items Interactive
$19.99
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 workforce, slicing by means of waves of enemies on a quest to rescue the galaxy!
The forces of Entropy are spreading chaos by means of the celebs, corrupting residing planets and urging on the warmth loss of life of the universe. Led by the psychic Owl, one scrappy workforce of area survivors are combating to revive the steadiness. A mysterious mech! A sharpshooting amphibian! Collectively they need to lower by means of waves of enemies and restore gentle and life to the galaxy!
