Greenlight Highlight | Emberlands

Title: Emberlands
Developer: Clusterloop
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What type of game is it?

Post Apocalyptic 2D Adventure

What’s the 30 second elevator pitch?

It’s a metroidvania/Wonderboy style exploration adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic setting. The world has been claimed by a toxic fungus, twisting towns into deadly ruins. You are a scavenger in this world, delving to the deepest ruins to try to survive, and save the world.

What do we like most about it?

Metroidvania is normally limited to the fantasy and sci-fi settings, so it’s certainly interesting to have one taking to the post-apocalyptic setting.

The video certainly shows off some of the more important elements of the game type – doors previously impassable cleared by a new ability, parallax backgrounds, and unnecessarily dark rooms.

In principle, the game is on the right tracks, however, I personally feel like it needs a graphical overhaul; if you freeze the video at 0:24 you’ll see the character, detailed flowers, and vines blocking the door, all of them excellently drawn. In the same screen you”ll see an exceptionally minimally detailed town wall. Ultimately, that shot needs at least a new layer of background, and the wall (and several other textures in the current built, including most soil and water) needs completely re-doing.

That said, if the visuals do see that level of an upgrade then I will definitely be ready to spend money on the game.

When’s it due?

There’s no release date set for it yet, but when it launches it will be on PC, Mac & Linux