The sea is chilly, darkish and has a protracted reminiscence – it’s additionally fairly salty, and will get even more-so if these pesky landlubbers attempt to weasel their method out of aeons-old contracts. Sea Salt is an upcoming, vaguely Pikmin-like motion technique game from Y/CJ/Y the place you play as Dagon, previous god of the ocean. The people have grown daring sufficient to cease their common sacrifices, so it’s as much as you to extract your pound of flesh (and some thousand in curiosity) by way of a swarm of summoned sea-monsters. The game is due out someday this spring – have a peek on the very murky trailer beneath.
Sea Salt appears to be like a bit quicker than Pikmin, however with an analogous idea. Controlling a single ‘apostle’, you semi-directly lead round a blob of minions and direct them to assault. Big siege monsters smash partitions, little swarming critters overwhelm melee fighters and ranged shooters lob fireballs. You’ve solely received a restricted variety of troops, so it’s greatest to wiggle them out of the way in which of oncoming assaults, particularly from bosses. Yep, received some huge pattern-based evade-and-counter brawls right here, one thing that few strategic games have actually tried outdoors of Starcraft 2.
Sea Salt guarantees some replay worth by way of a branching marketing campaign. While it appears to be like comparatively brief and arcade’y (an fascinating distinction in opposition to its strategic components), there are a number of routes by way of every of its mission areas, generally leading to totally different end-of-level boss fights. There’s sixteen totally different unit varieties to summon, though every of your apostles has their very own perks and listing of creatures they’ll use. Interestingly, there’s additionally a morale system – terrified townsfolk go down simpler, although skilled monster hunter enemies are proof against panic.
It all has the texture of a bizarre arcade or SNES-era console technique game that by no means was. If there’s one reservation I’ve in regards to the game, it’s the palette. While utterly acceptable for the theme of the game its sickly mix of watery greys, greens and browns would possibly obscure the motion, however I hope I’m unsuitable on that time. Still, whether or not it stays afloat or sinks with out a hint hinges on simply how darkish and foreboding its depths actually are.
Sea Salt is due out someday this spring, though no remaining date or worth has been determined but. You can see a little bit extra of it within the murky depths of its Steam store page here, and its official page here.
