Useless Cells developer’s new action-roguelike Windblown is getting a demo and Early Entry launch this month

Windblown is an motion roguelite very like Useless Cells, the earlier sport from developer Movement Twin, but it surely trades sidescrolling ‘vania vibes for a 3D and extra vibrant world, and provides co-op for as much as three friends. That sounds lots interesting, and it now has a launch date: October twenty fourth.

Higher nonetheless, on October 14th, it is getting a singleplayer demo as a part of the Steam Subsequent Fest.

Useless Cells had fabulous-feeling fight and an thrilling development system that made every new run thrilling. Regardless of the change in model and perspective, Windlbown appears to wish to provide an identical expertise as you sprint and smash throughout floating sky islands.

That sprint is seemingly key, based mostly on Edwin’s impressions from seeing a Windblown presentation again at GDC.

“Windblown’s sprint appears expressive, at instances, of deep impatience in direction of the remainder of the sport, which sounds perverse on the floor, however is smart when you think about the roguelike’s intrinsic factor of repetition. It is a sprint devoted to the skilled participant’s want to instantly return to the biome the place they final popped their clogs,” Edwin wrote. “There are some acquainted components that gradual you down, nonetheless: boss enemies that have to be fought to progress the story, and the essential stress to defeat foes and collect new gear, or else get your arse handed to you by an unskippable menace within the subsequent biome alongside.”

My favorite instances with Useless Cells got here early in its Early Entry, when it was likewise a sport of dash-rolling impatience, and the place most enemies might be bested through turret deployments and ladder-based cheese strats. As soon as the updates got here, forcing me to gradual and have interaction with its deeper methods, it was nonetheless enjoyable however now not freewheeling and frivolous. I am inclined to hop on the Windblown practice early, in case it charts an identical path.

The demo appears an excellent place to start out. It will launch on October 14th, and whereas restricted to singleplayer on-line, progress made will carry over to the total sport ten days later. You will discover a couple of extra particulars over on Steam.