Pancake Games and Whitethorn Games have today announced that the adorable-looking "Souls-lite" Slime Heroes will be slashing its way onto Switch in early 2025.
This one will see you playing as a slime (naturally), tasked with taking on the guardian of the Fire Mountain and all of its menacing minions. To do so, you'll have to uncover an arsenal of melee weapons, upgrade your slime stats, and learn to master the dodge-rolling combat. Yep, it looks like a beginner's guide to Souls-likes.
Obviously, this is far brighter than anything from the FromSoftware back catalogue, and it looks like the developer has endeavoured to make things as approachable as possible. There are magical gems you can use to tweak your build, the whole thing can be played in both local and online co-op, and there are even unlockable hats to grant your slime stat buffs (and look good while doing it).
Here's a rundown of the game's features and a handful of screenshots from publisher Whitethorn Games:
Gain Abilities and Change Them Up On the Fly: Collect and consume an arsenal of gems obtained from defeating enemies, and dynamically combine skills to craft unique attacks that suit your playstyle at any time.
Play Alone or With a Friend: Venture off solo or jump into a friend’s game at any time for a fun couch and online co-op adventure. With a shared loot system, you’ll both be able to create complimentary abilities to take on the fiercest corrupted enemies.
Travel Across an Expansive World: Explore six distinct regions in a vibrant, vast open world and meet the gods that rule over each region. Discover secret passageways, hidden areas and unique puzzle dungeons each with their own challenges to overcome.
Make Your Slime Your Own: Give your slime some personality as you customize their face and colours to your liking. Find hats throughout the map that not only give your slime that little extra pizazz but also provide helpful stat buffs, keeping you fashionable and ready for battle.
We still don't have a precise release date for this one just yet outside of Q1 2025, but we'll be keeping an eye out over the coming months for more updates.
Will you be picking up this one early next year? Let us know in the comments.
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That trailer contains only 5 seconds of gameplay. 😒 I need more than this to win my confidence in a game.
In the introduction more than slimes they look like Puyos - too bad that's not how they look like in the gameplay (although luckily they're cute if in a different way there) and the artwork at the end!
Anyway, interested in at the very least seeing/hearing more about this.
Those who cannot draw, draw slime.
The extremely limited look at game play made me think of Ori, which is good. If there’s an easy mode I’ll get it for the couch co-op with my wife.
This only strengthened my desire for a DQ Rocket Slime game. I only got to play the 1st DS game, but I had such a great time with it. I tried firing up the game last year (shocked that my DS still held any kind of charge), but I couldn't remember anything of how to play the game. I didn't want to delete my save file, but I probably should just to start completely over. I know there are other games in the series, but this was the only one I played.
This slime game is not what I hoped for, LOL. Honestly, it kinda feel like they wanted to make a Hades like game, but go easy on the art assets so went with slime instead of more detailed character art. Too hard to say for sure with that little snip of gameplay. Usually when they show more FMV than gameplay, there's a reason.
Looks interesting, though the story is just dumb.
The game looks pretty charming. Keeping an eye out for this one.
Seems more of a "hades lite".
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