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Descend Through Hell in Style With Upcoming Metroidvania ‘Fevericide’ [Trailer]
Ever wondered what you’d get if you mixed Art Deco with horror adventure? Developer/publisher Redblack Spade has your answer with their newly-announced title, Fevericide. This dark fantasy Metroidvania is currently in development for PC via Steam, merging elements of horror and adventure games with hand-drawn frame-by-frame animation.
Fevericide is set in an alternate 1930s Russia, where the Empire was never overthrown. You play as a woman named Sandra, who after a nightmarish childhood spent surrounded by angry spirits drawn to her father and haunting their home, has enjoyed a period of peace. However, that peace is soon shattered when her father disappears without explanation, along with their ghostly tormentors.
Sandra soon receives a letter arrives addressed to him, which contains a train ticket from a long-abandoned station. Coincidentally, her spiritual tormentors also return. Sandra boards the ghostly train and descends through the circles of hell with her ghostly escorts to uncover the truth, and take responsibility for her father’s sins.
As expected for a Metroidvania, you’ll be exploring varying locations full of secrets. You’ll also be interacting with a diverse cast of NPCs, solving puzzles, and completing a variety of quests in order to progress to new areas. There’s also plenty of action that sees you combining weapons with magic and your unusual super-abilities. Fevericide includes 150 items for you to tailor your play-style and situational needs.
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Bloody Body Horror Revealed in ‘Stellar Blade: Blood Rain’, Currently in Development [Trailer]
Shift Up has shifted things dramatically from 2024’s action-adventure game Stellar Blade, offering up a body horror bonanza in the newly announced sequel, Stellar Blade: Blood Rain. The sequel is currently early in development, but if the trailer is any indication, players will be in for plenty of body horror.
Continuing the story from the original Stellar Blade, Blood Rain will star a new protagonist named Eve. Earth has been abandoned, and what is left of humanity has fled to a Colony in outer space.
Shift Up had mentioned during a Q&A following its latest earnings presentation last month that development on Blood Rain (which was still unannounced at the time) was progressing smoothly, and was on track to meet their targeted quality standards.
Shift Up stated that with this new title it would be transitioning to a first-party service model, effectively moving away from the restrictions the game experienced with original publisher Sony, which had the game under an exclusivity agreement for the PlayStation 5. “This will allow us to lead marketing strategies that fully reflect the distinctive identity of the Stellar Blade IP, and we expect to communicate the unique appeal of its universe to players more directly and effectively.”
Whether this means that Xbox Players will finally be able to play the original game (or its sequel) is still not clear. Meanwhile, Stellar Blade is reportedly being ported to the Nintendo Switch 2, but no official confirmation has been made.