Video Games
Do The Devil’s Work in Upcoming Platformer ‘Pumpkin Jack’
In what seems like a platformer in the vein of the recent Medievil remake, publisher Headup Games and developer Nicolas Meyssonnier have announced Pumpkin Jack. The 3D platformer will arrive on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC via Steam in Q4 2020. There’s even have a demo on Steam for you to try.
The story for the game has the Boredom Kingdom, with its happy citizens and peaceful calm, has sent the Devil himself into a flying rage! In response, ol’ Scratch has unleashed the dreadful Curse of the Eternal Night upon the land. The human inhabitants have in response summoned a mighty wizard with the power to put an end to the evil curse.
Not to be outdone, the Devil summons the spirit of Jack, the Pumpkin Lord, to fight against the wizard’s army of beasts. It’s up to you as Jack to do the Devil’s work and stop the wizard.
In addition to platforming, players will have to solve puzzles that focus on physics, gravity, and reflection. As you’ll see from the trailer below, you can detach your head and use it to access areas that you normally wouldn’t be able to reach with your body.
You’re not alone in this battle, either. As you can utilize a haughty owl to guide you, as well as a snarky crow that can deal long-range attacks.
While not quite Snakes on a Plane or Red Eye, co-developers Liquid Static Studio and Snapping Turtle have something darker in mind with their upcoming job-sim horror game, Night Plane. Coming to Steam later this year, the game has you doing the expected work as a flight attendant, but with the added bonus of trying to find demons hiding amongst the passengers.
It’s 1999, and it’s your first day on the job. You must do the usual things as a flight attendant: welcoming passengers aboard, check tickets, and attend to their needs. However, shape-shifting entities may attempt to come aboard disguised as humans. So, your additional job in Night Plane is to question passengers, and find a way to remove any unauthorized non-human visitors from the plane.
That also leads to assisting passengers in unorthodox ways inside the plane, outside the plane, and in places not listed in your training manual. To make things even more complicated, you’ll need to make tough decisions with irreversible consequences. Naturally, the company will not be held accountable for any mistakes you make. You live with them.
Oh, and seeing as this is a plane, you may encounter some turbulence while in flight, along with power failures, lightning strikes and more. All of which, including your decisions, will lead to one of the multiple endings in Night Plane.
If you wish to get in on the fun prior to the game’s release, you can sign up for the playtest via the Steam page.