Cloudbuilt successor Sky Tracers takes rocket-powered parkour on-line

As a lot as I liked jet-powered platformer Super Cloudbuilt, it was a intentionally lonesome expertise for the self-improving speedrunner. For their subsequent – the not too long ago introduced Sky Tracers – builders Coilworks are adapting the components to multiplayer. Swarms of jet-powered lunatics will have the ability to hop, increase and wall-run their manner by towering sci-fi cityscapes, in environments trying much less summary than the dream-like floating ruins of Cloudbuilt. There’s no launch date but, however Coilworks are on the lookout for folks desirous to check out alpha take a look at builds. Below, a debut trailer.

While I don’t assume Coilworks have explicitly used the phrase ‘sequel’ right here, that’s positively a remixed model of Cloudbuilt’s primary theme getting used within the trailer beneath. The jet-boosted parkour seems simply the identical as ever, though the environments are trying a little bit extra Mirror’s Edge. While the gamers seem to only be racing to the end with out instantly impeding one another, there are some robotic enemies (once more, as in Cloudbuilt) to be shot at, and which might probably damage a run if ignored.

It all jogs my memory a little bit of Trackmania‘s multiplayer, with players just moving first as a huge disorganised swarm, then in groups starting to come together as racing lines are identified. There’s point out of social areas to hang around with in-between matches and character customisation, as you’d anticipate from any fashionable multiplayer game. Right now all we’ve seen of the game is the essential multiplayer racing mode, however extra methods to play are to be introduced.

Personally, I’m hoping for at the very least some single-player story element to the game, if solely as a result of Cloudbuilt gave me some extraordinarily good Mega Man X vibes, and I’ve been questioning for years what a extra conventional construction would do for its twitchy, agile parkour platforming. Social speedrunning does strike me as the following neatest thing, although, and the environments proven thus far are large and open sufficient to ask experimentation.

There’s no phrase on when Sky Tracers might be launching, however you will discover a little bit extra element on Steam and its official site, the place they’re accepting alpha take a look at sign-ups. In the meantime, I extremely advocate Super Cloudbuilt.