Anyone grumbling about lower-resolution pixel artwork being performed out must hush and have a look at Inmost. Announced in the present day and to be printed by Chucklefish, it’s a horror-themed puzzle platformer with a really placing visible fashion. While its character sprites are small and starkly outlined, much like what you’d see on the unique Game Boy, the mostly-monochrome world they inhabit is something however. Beautifully detailed structure, towering monsters and a few scrumptious lighting and particle results abound. Check it out in movement within the debut trailer under.
Inmost is the intertwined story of three playable characters throughout two worlds. There’s an bizarre man, who seems to spend most of his time working from highly effective shadow-beasts tearing the world aside round him. The knight (“sworn to the forces of darkness”, say devs Hidden Layer Games) seems to take a extra direct method, with melee fight and a really snappy grappling hook permitting him to traverse horizontal and vertical gaps near-instantly. As for who the third is, there’s a good few candidates proven within the trailer.
While the shadowy nature of the monsters jogs my memory somewhat of Limbo, the touchstone I maintain coming again to trying on the trailer above is Another World. While hopefully Inmost received’t be fairly as desirous to crush the participant’s physique and soul, it does look to have a little bit of that very same rigidity, the place a state of affairs can flip bitter with out warning, forcing a mad scramble to security. While deeply fashionable, the fragmented trailer doesn’t give us a lot of an concept as to the true nature of Inmost’s world or story, however I’m betting the little lady with the plush bunny goes to be on the coronary heart of all of it.
Inmost received’t be launching till someday in 2019, sadly. Until then, you’ll be able to gaze longingly at its official site and its gallery of animated GIFs.
