"Dark Souls meets Tetris" isle-shifting action roguelike Loot River is coming to Game Pass New animated trailer shows off mystical, subterranean world
Nová Dubnica, Slovakia - December 10th, 2021 - straka.studio with the help from SUPERHOT PRESENTS and Slovak Arts Council have today revealed that their upcoming island-shifting action-roguelike Loot River will be part of Game Pass for PC and Xbox platforms upon its launch next year. Get ready to embark upon a journey down an otherworldly river in search of knowledge and loot!
To commemorate this occasion, straka.studio has revealed an all new animated trailer that shows off Loot River's waterlogged labyrinths in style. And if you'd like to try the game out for yourself, a new demo was just made public earlier this week on Xbox One, Xbox Series S&X, and PC. This demo allows players to play through the tutorial, a sample wooden level, and an initial dungeon run. While the full game will be procedurally-generated, this demo is locked to one seed to merely give players a taste of Loot River's unique isle-shifting mechanic and combat system.
Set in a series of procedurally-generated labyrinths, Loot River is a dungeon-crawling action-roguelike that combines the tense, real-time combat and dark fantasy stylings of Dark Souls with the spatial block-shifting puzzles of Tetris.
Armed with the power of the Relic, players can shift the ground beneath them, sliding floating ruins together in a series of tile puzzles. As players venture through these endless catacombs, they'll encounter beasts, lost travelers, and bosses. These cosmic grottos offer a wealth of new weapons and gear to discover, as well as unholy knowledge to unearth for permanent upgrades.
Drawn to shards of an unholy relic, wandering nomads have found themselves in a perpetual cycle of life and death, losing their sanity as they journey through endless parallel realities, devouring each other to absorb the knowledge of their fellow travelers. No two journeys are ever the same as countless lost souls float through the Loot River.
"We're very excited to have partnered with Microsoft in bringing Loot River to Game Pass," said Miro Straka. "We think it's great value for the consumer, and it helps us share the game with as many players as possible. We're honored that Microsoft chose to partner with us for this, and can't wait to share Loot River with the rest of the world in 2022!"
About straka.studio straka.studio is a small Slovakian outfit that creates games focused on transforming the world around the player. After developing the mobile spatial puzzlers Euclidean Lands and Euclidean Skies, straka.studio has turned its attention to its most ambitious project yet, the action-roguelike Loot River, coming to Xbox and PC.
About SUPERHOT PRESENTS SUPERHOT PRESENTS is an indie game funding initiative created by the team that made SUPERHOT. After making a runaway success through sheer gumption and foolhardiness, the studio now aims to give other foolhardy, upstart indies a hand. Shipping a game without a publisher or investors is daunting and can feel like a huge leap of faith, so the SUPERHOT team aims to make that jump a little less scary for indie developers.
Supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council