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[Morrigan Stark]

The developers of Slain are making a new game, announced for 2018 on PC/consoles. Should be cool! Slain was rough at release, but the "re-release" fixed just about every issue and the game is pretty good now. Hopefully the devs learned from this mistake and will take the time necessary to polish Valfaris as much as needed before release.

Glad to see that glorious pixel art style again. Those artists are seriously talented.

Dev announcement:

Hi guys! We have been quiet for a while preparing for this announcement.

Steel Mantis (Andrew Gilmour and Thomas Jenns - the team behind Slain:Back From Hell) are excited to announce Valfaris - A heavy metal space saga coming to PC and console in 2018.

Set in a far corner of space, Valfaris is a heavy metal infused 2D action-platformer and the next game from the team behind Unity Awards finalist, Slain: Back From Hell. Brutal combat. Deadly enemies. Stunning pixel art. Savage soundtrack. Get ready to rip the galaxy a new wormhole.

Trailer: http://bit.ly/2rThinw
Steam Page: http://bit.ly/SteamValfaris

You can follow us on Social Media below!

https://twitter.com/ValfarisGame
https://www.facebook.com/ValfarisGame
https://www.instagram.com/valfarisgame/

(More screens available on the Steam page.)

Slay me if old

 

[5taquitos]

I'm in, Slain had amazing art and they really tuned the gameplay after release. Let's do this!

 

[Stevey]

Looks great and Slain was awesome.

 

[h0tp0ck3t]

Wow that looks great. Looking forward to this

 

[Endo Punk]

Looks great, hope it plays as well as it looks.

 

[Shredderi]

Yay! Looks awesome!

 

[Lindi]

Looks awesome!!

 

[Tankard]

Yeah, babe!!

 

[Finaika]

Slay.

 

[Allonym]

That's some sick-ass art direction.

 

[Z3M0G]

 

[MartyStu]

Good on them for putting up that store page so quickly.

 

[HStallion]

I love the look and still need to play Slain but I know it got a really well received overhaul after the initial criticisms. Always a good sign and bodes well for this game. More gifs!

 

[Mr_D_]

Great to be in such awesome company, and more importantly nothing with anywhere near as much metal or space gibs.

http://www.indiedb.com/games/unto-the-end/features/the-indie-games-of-e3-2017

\m/

 

[Ballistic Peanut]

Just took a glance at the steam page and the release date labeled as 2018 \m/

 

[Mr_D_]

Preview of the Biomech Jelly boss! And also the most phallic gif you will see all day. We hope

bitly.com/SteamValfaris

 

[Rur0ni]

Fantastic gifs and gameplay. Looking forward to this.

 

[Mr_D_]

User Testing

In about a months time we will be ready for our first round of closed user testing.

If you are interested in being a part of development and helping us make Valfaris taste like intergalactic heavy metal mayhem flavoured space gibs, just fill in this form below. Many thanks and hugs from the team!

FORM - https://goo.gl/forms/D7HJHvkkcNUCLlRj2

bit.ly/SteamValfaris

 

[DukeBobby]

Looks great. We can never have enough heavy metal games.

 

[Bloodporne]

Cool, Slain in space, will buy!

EDIT: Has flamethrower, will mega buy.

 

[bede-x]

Slain was rough at release, but the "re-release" fixed just about every issue and the game is pretty good now.

Didn't know it fixed that much. Skipped it because people said it was bad, but if it's become decent maybe I should give it another look.

 

[Mr_D_]

...but Therion rocks harder!!!

\m/ >_< \m/

Wishlist here!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/600130/Valfaris/

 

[nailbombxx]

Those preview gifs look incredible. Wow!

 

[ActWan]

So in.

 

[SlickShoesRUCrazy]

Ooooo I want this!

 

[Horseticuffs]

Hell yes!

 

[FuriousOne]

Looks cool! Would love this and Slain for the Switch.

 

[Mr_D_]

There's going to be plenty of stuff to blasterize, flamerate, and explodicute in Valfaris. So it only makes sense that Therion will have an array of awesome killamajig weaponry at his disposal to ensure he'll be able to slaughter and liquidize as messily and funly as possible.

Here's a sneaky work-in-progress looksee at two of Therion's tools for dishing out MAXIMUM GUNISHMENT!!!

We'll be sure to share more of Valfaris' mighty murder-gadgets with you soon.

Beam weapon:

Tendril weapon:

 

[redcrayon]

As a fan of Lovecraftian fiction I think the tendril gun is my favourite new firearm I've seen this year

Game looks great, will follow with interest. When you say 'PC/console' does that include Switch? No matter if not, just curious.

 

[SlasherJPC]

Wow this looks great! As the first backer of Slain. I'm in!

 

[Mr_D_]

As a fan of Lovecraftian fiction I think the tendril gun is my favourite new firearm I've seen this year

Game looks great, will follow with interest. When you say 'PC/console' does that include Switch? No matter if not, just curious.

Will be aiming for all platforms launching on same day, of course being a small time its not always that easy but this is what we are shooting for,

 

[Triggerhappytel]

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Good grief, the art in this is sensational. It has actually outdone Slain by the looks of things, which is probably my very favourite pixel art ever.

 

[Ahasverus]

Is it a rogue lite? Please tell me it's not a rogue lite.

 

[redcrayon]

Will be aiming for all platforms launching on same day, of course being a small time its not always that easy but this is what we are shooting for,

Lovely, thanks for the reply, best of luck with development!

 

[MoogleMan]

Gorgeous.
Pixel art done right.

edit: Ultrawide support please!

 

[Big_Al]

Is it a rogue lite? Please tell me it's not a rogue lite.

I'm pretty certain it isn't, not if Slain was anything to go by.

 

[Morrigan Stark]

Is it a rogue lite? Please tell me it's not a rogue lite.

Slain wasn't. This one looks like a Contra-like maybe?

 

[adversarial]

Playing Slain for the first time, pretty sick. The music isn't extreme enough, wonder if they take submissions. This looks awesome.

 

[sflufan]

Yep, this is exactly what I expected to be next after seeing the end of Slain!

 

[Ahasverus]

I'm pretty certain it isn't, not if Slain was anything to go by.

Thank God. Bought.

 

[2+2=5]

...but Therion rocks harder!!!

\m/ >_< \m/

Wishlist here!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/600130/Valfaris/

I guess we have a Therion(metal/symphonic metal band) fan.

 

[Morrigan Stark]

I guess we have a Therion(metal/symphonic metal band) fan.

Or it's a Celtic Frost reference... since the composer is ex-Celtic Frost

 

[Mr_D_]

Is it a rogue lite? Please tell me it's not a rogue lite.

Negative! No roguelite here.

 

[Mr_D_]

Hey guys,

Thought you were due another delicious dolloping of Valfaris pixelry.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many are a GIF?

Right now we're keeping the magic alive on our social channels
https://twitter.com/ValfarisGame
https://www.facebook.com/ValfarisGame
https://www.instagram.com/valfarisgame/

And if you want to talk with Andrew and Tom directly, come say hi in our Discord channel.
bit.ly/DiscordValfaris
Everyone's mostly friendly - but there's the occasional disagreement over tastes in metal

 

[Allnamestakenlol]

Ho ho, looks rad! Just started playing Slain and am loving it so far.

 

[Shifty]

Damn, I'm super down for heavy metal space shootbangs. Seeing all of this awesome art is making me think I should go back and play Slain.

 

[Wolfgunblood Garopa]

Everyone's mostly friendly - but there's the occasional disagreement over tastes in metal

Disagreements over tastes in metal, that's like my bat signal.

Valfaris looks incredible, huge fan of Slain.

 

[kingbean]

While slain looked great it wasnt the best, granted I bought it on pc and vita and enjoyed it. The combat just felt kinda shallow.

This however seems legit as hell.

 

[Fuz]

Looks really... weird. Nice toh, it's a good weird.

 

[Bloodporne]

Slain was leaning slightly too much towards the style end of the style vs. substance spectrum.

I still think this looks great as I had said earlier in this thread, but I'm hoping for more depth gameplay wise compared to Slain.