Blimey, it’s a great day for destruction, isn’t it? Now that we’ve spent all morning tossing bricks at towers, it’s time to dig a little bit deeper. Underground, maybe, right into a cavern stuffed with goblins and wizards and loads of flammable barrels simply ready to blow up. Pick up your wand and don your witchiest gown, physics-simulated dungeon crawler Noita entered early entry at the moment.
There are some proper lengthy developer playthroughs if you would like a fuller have a look at Noita’s world-breaking nonsense, however the fast trailer beneath ought to provide help to rise up to hurry.
Noita is a spelunkin’ roguelike the place each procedurally-generated pixel is a simulated materials, from grains of sand to drops of flammable oil. Liquids splosh round convincingly, gasses linger, wooden crackles and burns and chars simply as you’d anticipate. Toss a mystical dungeon-crawling journey stuffed with unstable spells into the combination, and predictable pleasant carnage ensues.
It’s a stunning little twist on extra typical Spelunky-style dungeon crawling. Usually, blasting holes in partitions in these sorts of games solely opens up new routes or reveals secrets and techniques. But in Noita, abusing the lay of the land is the important thing to every thing from traversal to doling out injury.
Blocked by a band of beasts milling about on an icy pond? Crack a gap and ship them to a deep-frozen demise. Facing a ferocious fire-spewing alchemist? Coat your self in water to fairly actually dampen their assaults.
Alec had a grand ol’ time with an early build near the start of the year, whereas Alice B cornered the devs for a chat at GDC. We’ll have much more Noita nonsense on the positioning quickly. For the time being, you possibly can choose up Noita on Steam and GOG for £14/$17.
