Lemmings, Pikmin, and Lovecraftian elder gods is an odd combine, however it someway works within the demo I simply performed of God’s Gift by the worryingly named Seventeen Uncles, at the moment crowdfunding on Kickstarter to develop right into a full game. It’s a platform puzzler with darkish intent – as a tentacled servitor to an alien god, you are invincible however the purple-robed human cultists following you aren’t. They must be rigorously shepherded, and solely sacrificed on blood-altars while you completely want just a little divine, flesh-warping assist. Grab the demo here, and take a look at the trailer beneath.
While your big floating eyeball is spectacular, there’s not a lot you are able to do bodily to assist your little cultist minions in God’s Gift. However, you’ll be able to persuade them to sacrifice themselves on the altars of unusual alien gods, granting you a inventory of Lemmings-like transformation powers to make use of on them. Warp one briefly right into a charging hell-beast to interrupt via a wall, or winged Cthulhoid monster to be able to flap previous a barrier. Every cultist is concurrently a useful resource and a legal responsibility, and so they do must be saved secure, till such time as they can be utilized correctly.
God’s Gift does a surprisingly nice job of constructing its worlds really feel alien. Your stage choice hub is a cathedral on Earth (constructed to honour you, in fact), however the environments you must lead your cult via are bizarre in all the precise methods. Castle-topped floating islands, historic ziggurats and a few unusual wildlife. Not the whole lot is making an attempt to kill you, both – see the alien priest within the trailer above – however some issues must be puzzled round, or fought via utilizing the precise cultist transformations. I’ve but to finish the demo, however it’s 5 ranges lengthy, together with a boss.
Interestingly, the demo additionally comprises a bare-bones stage editor, though the builders observe that it’s the least completed a part of the bundle proper now. Still, it’s precisely the type of factor I’d need to see in a game like this, and I hope the ultimate game (if it will get made) consists of some type of stage sharing, too. The God’s Gift Kickstarter is just searching for to boost £7,500, though it’s nonetheless some methods off after two days. I’ve acquired my tentacles crossed for this one – it’s imaginative, bizarre and and enjoyable even on this early stage, and whereas ugly, a few of these little animations are spectacular.
You can discover the God’s Gift demo here on Itch, and the Kickstarter here. £10 will get you a replica of the game when it’s completed, and Seventeen Uncles reckon that’ll be a while subsequent December.
