The extraction-shooter genre is gotting a little more crowded and a lot more stylish with the announcing of MycopunkA Four-Player, First-Person Romp from Indie Studio Pigeons at Play and Publisher Devolver Digital. Mycopunk IS Coming to steam in early access this year.
Mycopunk Stars Four eccentric robots who are ben hired by an intergalactic megacorporation to exterminate an invasive, violent fungus that”s taken root on a valuable plan. Each Robot has a specific class and moveset, but players can use any weapon or loadout with any character – and that’s a huege benefits, because there a ton of wacky guns, upgrades, upgrades and ammo options in This game. For example, there are bouncing shotgun pellets, bullets that hover in place and then dive down when you press the trigger again, and a Rockt launcher movie that also makes you fry. Customization is a big part of the Mycopunk Experience, and there are about 40 upgrades for every weapon, plus unique ability trees for each robot. A spatial upgrade system lets you activate abilitys by placing their molecular strands on a honeycomb grid, combining effects in powerful and silly ways.
The main loop in Mycopunk Involves Gathering Your Team, Setting Mission modifiers, and then Dropping Onto a Planet to Kill Hordes of Massive, Tented Fungus Monsterrs. With Each Run, You Have to Accomplement Your Corporate-Directed Goal, Collect Resources for future upgrades and generally survive the onslaugt. Missions are fast-paced and the action shifts through, Dropping New Enemies, Minibosses and Environmental Dangers Until Your Final Escape.
The hub world, where you hang out between missions, is surprisingly vast and packed with surreal touches, like a giant tv screen that only shows a sitom about roaches. All Abilities are unlocked in the hub so you can freely test out your character, plus there are vehicles to drive Around, A Sparring Area, A Recreation Sphere, Sneck Machines, Snack Machines, and SECRET PASSAGEWAYS to ExPLORES. It also has roachard, your mission control contact who happys to be a big roach.
Visually, Pigeons at Play Took Inspiration from Your Coolest Friend’s Favorite Comic Book Artist, MoebiusWhich lends the game a gritty, hand-drawwn vibe. Mycopunk Looks like a living graphic novel, blending retrofuturism with Slick Mechanics to Create a Rich, Tacail Experience. It specifically reminds me of RollerdromeA That i will ,
Mycopunk Started out as a senior thesis project for the pigeons at play crew, but it’s transformed into somento somenting much larger (Kind of like a cell-fungus). Mycopunk Is charming and surprisingly deep, with dozens of cute touches that come straight from the developers’ History of Playing Co-Op Shooters Togeether. For institution, to revise a teammate you have to literal find and reconnect two halves of their broken robot body, instead of justyad of just pressing x over their corpse in the middle of a hectic battlefield. Each character also has their own dance moves, and one of the available upgrades lets you move a swarm of bullets through the air like a Murderous Orchestra Conductor.
A demo for Mycopunk Went live on Steam today And the game is set to enter early access later in 2025.
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