Publisher Big Sugar and developer Steel Mantis have revealed that the release date for Valfaris has been firmly locked down. You'll be able to get your hands on it on Nintendo Switch from 10th October.
Switch owners will actually be receiving the game first - alongside PC players - with the PS4 and Xbox One versions coming the month after. A brand new trailer has been released to celebrate the announcement (which you can check out for yourself above).
A Digital Deluxe Edition is also headed to PS4 and PC, and while there doesn't seem to be any mention of this making its way to Switch, Nintendo fans can instead treat themselves to a physical edition copy if they prefer. Merge Games revealed plans to release the game physically for the console earlier this year, with an expected November release window being the goal.
We'll leave you with a list of key features should you be interested in knowing more. Make sure to let us know if you're thinking of picking this one up with a comment below.
Features:
- Skulls in space! Gore in space! Metal in space!
- Savagely reduce foes to piles of gibs with an array of brutal weaponry
- Explore a diverse range of tainted environments as you venture ever deeper into the dark world of Valfaris
- Dominate ranks of deadly enemies and bosses, from the weird to the grotesque (and some that are just grotesquely weird)
- Gorge your eyes on devastatingly awesome pixel art hand-crafted by Andrew Gilmour
- Feel the power of a seismic soundtrack by extreme metaller and former Celtic
Frost guitarist, Curt Victor Bryant
- Forged from the ground-up by the team behind cult hit Slain: Back From Hell
Comments 17
That looks radical!
this looks fantastic
Game looks awesome! retail version For me!!
I prefer the funeral doom metal atmosphere of Blasphemous I have to say
My God this looks amazing, day one for me. We need more of this 2D quality awesomeness 😀😀😀
Whao. like a 2D Warhammer 40k game. awesome.
Normally, I'd have an issue when a game's marketing refers to its own pixel art with some high praise like "devastatingly awesome", but that seems pretty accurate. The game looks fantastic. The metal aspect is a plus for me as well.
There is something I have noticed that may need some clarification, in case the developer sees these comments as is often the case. I find the "screen shake" special effect that is very common these days to be quite irritating and tiring. This trailer has none of it, but a previous trailer had lots of shaking. Has the effect been removed or reduced from previous builds, or has an option been implemented? I'm glad to see this change in the trailer. If the effect has been removed or the option for it has been provided, I will be taking a much closer look at this game when it is released.
@Fake-E-Lee Exactly, and not so shouty as heavy metal. Or were you talking about the game?
@ShaiHulud But Shai Hulud is more hxc shout than most old school metal singing like in Iced Earth
So we have Slain, this and Victor Vran! Nice array of metal soundtrack games
I'll probably hold out for the deluxe version as I only just bought Slain! All these makes me want a Brütal Legend port but that won't happen, sadly :/ Still have it on my partners 360, I guess.
Game looks awesome and the same as it did when this website had an article a few months ago.
Looks cool. I hope it's a straightforward platformer and not a metroidvania.
My body is ready!
Bad ass!!! I love a good Shooter.
This looks so killer!
I'm all over this. Enjoyed slain so this should be great
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