Preorder Sci-fi Roguelike Shoulders of Giants Today – Releasing January 26th
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After nearly three years of growth we’re overjoyed to announce that Shoulders of Giants is now out there for pre-order. The sport will likely be launched on January 26, 2023 on Xbox!
Try the most recent trailer above that includes a mixture of single participant and coop mayhem.
One of many very first concepts we had after we began making Shoulders of Giants, was the silhouette of a smaller character using on the again of a a lot greater character. After which we thought, what should you may management each of those characters directly? How would that work? Would that be enjoyable?
It took quite a lot of experimentation and prototyping to seek out the candy spot, and an expertise that felt recent but acquainted. We thought, what if we cut up up kinds of fight between these characters, one character does all of the melee, and is a giant highly effective mech? And the opposite character perched atop its again a small, nimble, gun wielding frog?
As soon as we discovered this mix, we knew we had discovered the core of the sport. The following query we requested ourselves was, what sort of world would these characters be in? What would their objective be within the recreation?
Now we have at all times been big followers of science fiction, and knew we needed a world the place there was a darkish drive these heroes needed to overcome, the traditional theme of darkish versus mild. However how may we really take this theme and create an interactive means for the participant to expertise it?
We imagined after an intense boss battle having your entire world remodel from barren and darkish, to vibrant, lush and energetic in a cinematic means. We experimented with real-time methods the participant may do that, and located it to be enjoyable and thrilling and it grew to become a pillar of the gamers talents.
Talking of talents, the final core concept behind the sport was that we needed Shoulders of Giants to really feel like a colourful playground with an enormous arsenal of sci-fi devices and weapons for the participant to discover and tinker with.
Gamers encounter weapons and skills like a firework-shooting grenade launcher, a large stomping shoe, a surfable protect, and far more. The core fight is all about experimenting with totally different mixtures of apparatus to seek out that tremendous combo that retains issues feeling recent and thrilling.
Whereas fight is the primary gameplay pillar, we knew that we needed a narrative for the sport to happen in and for the characters and world to really feel grounded too. The forces of entropy have taken over the universe, it’s the gamers job to fight this darkish drive and to revive order and steadiness again to the universe.
As you beat extra ranges and save extra worlds from the forces of entropy, you’ll construct up your warmth meter, permitting you to entry more and more tough ranges. As you move sure warmth thresholds, you’ll unlock particular story boss encounters as you make your method to the ultimate boss.
Alongside the way in which, you’ll purchase new weapons for each Froggie and the heroic Robotic of the Galaxy in addition to new items of armor, XP to spend in your ability tree, and dyes to additional customise the look of your characters.
When you can customise your individual frog and robotic with dozens of cosmetics which are unlockable in-game, the 4 under can solely be acquired as a bonus for pre-ordering the sport:
This pre-order bonus consists of 4 shade units, so that you and as much as three co-op buddies can save the universe in model proper from the beginning of the sport.
Even higher, the sport is 20% off throughout this pre-order interval. For extra info, take a look at the sport’s retailer web page and official web site, or be a part of our discord.
Shoulders of Giants
Transferring Items Interactive
$19.99
$15.99
Concurrently management a sword-wielding robotic and a gunslinging house frog in Shoulders of Giants, an explosively colourful sci-fi roguelike. Play alone, with a good friend, or as a part of a four-person staff, slicing via waves of enemies on a quest to rescue the galaxy!
The forces of Entropy are spreading chaos via the celebrities, corrupting dwelling planets and urging on the warmth dying of the universe. Led by the psychic Owl, one scrappy staff of house survivors are preventing to revive the steadiness. A mysterious mech! A sharpshooting amphibian! Collectively they have to reduce via waves of enemies and restore mild and life to the galaxy!
Pre-order the sport for entry to limited-edition dye units with particular visible results. Dazzle your folks!
