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[March Climber]

Description:

Graytail, a small island located in the Pacific. You are a detective tasked with following the trail of a pilot who has crash-landed on this remote island. Clues are scattered across the island, and fragments of long-buried secrets slip through the villagers' conversations. You suffer from relentless headaches and to you have keep taking medication...but what's real and what's a hallucination?

Can you find the pilot and make it off of this island alive?

Features:

• Solve creative puzzles by interacting with physics-driven objects.
• Wield multiple weapons, from canes and umbrellas to crossbows.
• Take down enemies using a variety of combos, heavy attacks, spin attacks, parries, tracking dodges, and more.
• Explore 5 distinctly themed areas, each with their own character and atmosphere.
• Listen carefully to the villagers, because their words carry more weight than you think.

 

[ssringo]

Played about 40 minutes of the demo. Pretty basic mechanics and puzzles early on and the English translation needs some work (dev said it's machine translated for now and will be revisited before launch) but otherwise seems pretty solid and well made. On the wishlist it goes!

 

[L*][*N*K]

"Zelda-like" is here to stay huh?

 

[March Climber]

"Zelda-like" is here to stay huh?

Yes, just as much as metroidvania and soulslike.

I'm curious to see what the next game-name genre will be years down the line.

 

[L*][*N*K]

Yes, just as much as metroidvania and soulslike.

I'm curious to see what the next game-name genre will be years down the line.

Mario-like didn't catch on sadly

 

[archangelmorph]

Mario-like didn't catch on sadly

"Platformer" predated Mario though

 

[kat_on_the_roof]

That looks nice. I need that on my Switch.

 

[L*][*N*K]

"Platformer" predated Mario though

I feel like the whole concept is a little dumb to be honest, we can't come up with a new term for a genre so we use an example?

 

[March Climber]

I feel like the whole concept is a little dumb to be honest, we can't come up with a new term for a genre so we use an example?

People have tried for ages, and what ends up happening is a word salad of subgenres for a game like this, so it's better to just use the shortform term.

Some games just are so distinct that their names are used as a subgenre.

If you think you have good alternate names for these things, contact places like Valve and let them know. Or if you don't, but want there to be, make a thread here where people can workshop subgenre name ideas.

 

[drotahorror]

Cool artstyle. Probably just sit in my backlog though.

 

[Magic Carpet]

This looks nice, and I usually hate this blocky 8bit graphic stuff.

 

[SJRB]

Looks kinda neat, will che-

Q2 2027

 

[Fbh]

Looks cool, I really like the concept.
It's definitely going on the wishlisht

"Zelda-like" is here to stay huh?

I think it's good. I was actually always surprised we didn't get more indie Zelda-likes, specially with Nintendo only releasing one every 5 years or so.