Thunderful Games had the opportunity to introduce the world to a host of exciting new titles and updates on its anticipated roster at its debut showcase event, Thunderful World. Four interesting titles are Shoot’Em Up titled Swordship in collaboration with developer Digital Kingdom, WaveTale by developer Thunderful Studios, Motorvania Laika: Aged Through Blood by developer Brainwash Gang and White Shadows by developer Monokel. Do enjoy the announcements below and have a great weekend ahead.
Swordship
A unique shoot ‘em up where you can’t shoot, Swordship has players manoeuvre a speed boat while being chased and attacked by enemies at every corner. With no weapons available, players will need to use the ship’s powerful movement ability to dodge bullets and trick enemies into attacking each other. Look forward to a lot more about Swordship as it nears release in 2022 on PC and Console.
Game Details as shared on Steam:
TACTICAL
Dodge attacks to survive and trick your enemies into killing each other
DELIVERY
Steal containers and deliver them to upgrade your ship or improve your score
ACTION
No shooting, but all the action!
The Story
In the far future, Earth’s temperature has become too high to live on land. To survive, mankind has built gigantic underwater cities where the upper class lives. The poorest are forced to live on land, hiding in caves and waiting for the sunset to come out. To survive, they steal containers off transport lines that connect underwater cities, mostly without success.
One day, yellow unmanned ships appeared all over the world and start stealing containers. Are they stealing from the rich to give to the poor? Building powerful ships for their own sake? Or just looking for fame?
What does a Shoot’Em Up look like if you remove the shooting? It looks like Swordship: an intense dodge’em up game where placement is everything.
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Features
- Guns are cool, but they are bulky and heavy: The Swordship doesn’t have any and that’s part of what makes it so light and manoeuvrable
- Ship variant: Collect power-boosting components and experiment with different play styles in your runs
- Upgrade: Exchange stolen containers for passive upgrades that fit the situation and your play style
- Weather: Learn to master the different weather conditions to get through the randomly generated levels
White Shadows
Coming to the PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S on December 7th, White Shadows is a cinematic 2.5D puzzle platformer with a stunning monochromatic art style. White Shadows is launching on December 7th for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S.
Monokel’s debut effort tells the story of Ravengirl, on a journey to escape the dystopia of The White City, a dangerous metropolis consisting of a vast network of towers rising high into the dark sky. The industrial steampunk aesthetic is fused with a sci-fi dystopia in The White City, resulting in a truly unique setting. This modern fable offers a relatable human story laced with social criticism.
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Game details as shared on Steam
White Shadows is a cinematic puzzle-platformer where you play a little Ravengirl trying to escape a brutal dystopia founded on oppression and violence that puts her at the bottom of its hierarchical social ladder.
Composed of a vast network of towers rising from the void of post-catastrophe darkness into the sky above, the city our young adventurer seeks to escape is a dangerous place to be. She will have to find ways to avoid the teeth of machinery primed to grind her into dust, leap across rickety infrastructure that bridges the cavernous darkness all around and avoid the watchful eyes of guards ready to gun her down. On her journey, she will experience the brightest highs of the city and its darkest depths, discovering her destiny among the last free people alive.
White Shadows’ striking architectural forms and stunning monochrome art style combine to create a place steeped in atmosphere.
Features:
- A visually stunning and narratively rich dystopian setting with a distinctive art style
- Varied puzzle platforming with unique scenarios that keep things fresh
- An exciting personal story combined with social critique
- A simple and intuitive control scheme
WaveTale
Splashing onto Google Stadia today before surfing its way over to PC and Console in 2022, Wavetale is a third-person action-adventure game from Thunderful Studios, the creators of Lost in Random and SteamWorld, with beautiful visuals, a stirring soundtrack, and a heart-warming story.
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Explore the open sea and the decaying archipelago of Strandville as you take control of Sigrid, a young girl who befriends a mysterious shadow that provides her with the power to walk on water. Speed through the waves, swing yourself from housetops with your net, and defeat an old nemesis to save the citizens of the islands, all with a bit of help from the shadows down below—and your cranky grandmother.
Laika: Aged Through Blood
Brainwash Gang‘s motorvania title lets players take control of a young Coyote warrior as she rides her motorbike on a path of vengeance, taking back the land that her tribe has lost. This motorvania title has a huge, openly explorable world filled with NPCs to meet, secrets to discover, and enemies to destroy.
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Drive, jump, and fight your way across the desert as you ride your way through an epic story told over 6 chapters. Meet NPCs to take on new missions and earn new gear while taking on enemies midair with deadly precision using slow-mo to line up your perfect shot. Master these abilities to take on huge bosses, who will test your skills to the limit.
Featuring beautiful hand-drawn graphics, intense vehicular combat, and a vast open world, Laika: Aged Through Blood delivers an emotional experience of revenge and loss. Laika: Aged Through Blood is coming in 2022 for PC and Console.
Features as shared on Steam:
- Vehicular combat on a fast and agile motorbike
- A beautiful, hand-painted, and post-apocalyptic world filled with secrets and NPCs
- A deep story about a mother-daughter relationship, vengeance, and loss, told through cinematic flashbacks
- Various chapters, epic boss battles, and loads of missions
- The very first MOTORVANIA!
