Platform brawler Indie Pogo is heading to Nintendo Switch early next year, it's been confirmed. The news arrives alongside a very timely new character reveal in the shape of Super Meat Boy Forever's Meat Boy.
The game is a Smash-like arena fighter for one-to-four players which stars a number of indie favourite fighters, with characters from the likes of Enter The Gungeon, Shovel Knight, Downwell, and Bit.Trip all appearing. It has a focus on "free-flowing aerial combat" and first launched on Steam back in 2018.
The Switch version will contain all previously released content, including all DLC, and will also receive all upcoming DLC packs which are set to include Octodad, Gunvolt from the Azure Striker: Gunvolt series, Dust from Dust: An Elysian Tail, and a fighter from Awesomenauts.
Meat Boy arrives in a new content pack that will launch in January 2021; he'll be free for all players and comes with a new stage based on the Abandoned Hospital setting, where Super Meat Boy boss C.H.A.D will be making an appearance. The update will also add a single-player arcade mode, new trophies to unlock, and other quality-of-life improvements.
Will you be keeping an eye out for this indie brawler next year? Feel free to share your thoughts with us in the comments below.
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Just posted a thread about this Lol😂. Soooooooo Hyyyyyype!!!!!
"Dust"
Was not expecting that!
No Shantae in any of these Indie fighters and she's no stranger to crossovers, so, crossing my fingers for Smash!!!
With this Mighty fight fed. and Fraymakers inbound, it's a wonder why Slap city hasn't decided to also port to switch. Seems incredibly easy to do.
Moreover, all these smash clones make it honestly clear that we don't need Nintendo to add indie guest stars if indie developers will just do it themselves.
@KingBowser86 Shantae would honestly be the best character ever in a platform fighter! Maybe she can get in the Fraymakers game that is also coming soon, but WayForward doesn’t seem to want to put her in many indie crossovers sadly.
Looks like an inferior version of Rivals of Aether, if it's jam pack with contents than maybe I may check it out. Even better if it ever got a physical treatment.
This seems interesting, I hope it'll be well received and made.
@Blooper987 We'll have to wait and see. But prior to these fighters, she was all over Blaster Master Zero, Indivisible, etc. Odd that all's super-quiet on the fighter front.
Everything about Team Meat rubs me the wrong way, so Meat Boy's inclusion is a staying-away point, not a selling point. The only character whose game I've played is Shovel Knight and he's in Blade Strangers, so I'm set if I ever need to brawl against him.
Also might I add. They plan on adding a Crypt of the Necrodancer stage and said that Cadence could potentially be added as a fighter in the future.
@JimmySpades care to explain? I just never heard anything negative about team meat before.
@Dakotastomp It's just that every time I've read a quote or interview from them they come across as really arrogant and unlikable. There's no reason to expect or insist that everyone's experience be the same as mine, but that has been mine, and I've learned to listen to my instincts.
@JimmySpades sounds like thats more about the devs than their game, which ive never understood.
If the game is fun I play it, if the company has issues I buy secondhand.
NIOCE I can't wait for this.
@JimmySpades Guess that's understandable. I assumed it was their dark humor, but it probably does rub people the wrong way.
Let's see. With Outfoxies, Brawlhalla, Brawlout, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, the five Super Smash Bros. games, that Xbox 360 game I can't remember the name of, and now this, that makes, what, 10 games in this sub-genre?
@Retro_Player_77 @Dakotastomp
Mighty Fight Federation, Fraymakers, and Slap City make 13.
Rivals of Aether makes 14.
@pixelpatch Or get free
Meat Boy is easily found in free game promotions.
I got it on Xbox 360 and Epic Games
@DrDaisy You forgot there's also that TMNT Smash-Up game for Wii and PS2 which had those Rabbids as well then there's that one Onimusha Blade Warriors game for PS2 which had Mega Man NT and Zero and them two Jump Superstars games for DS. Not only that but there's also BlazBlue: Dust Strikers on DS as well, the Shovel Knight Showdown spinoff, Viewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumble on GameCube, those three Digimon Battle Spirits games for GBA, and the two Kirby Fighters games as well. Altogether there's 26 but I'm sure there's a lot more than this too which I probably don't know about. Not sure if Pokemon Rumble and Sonic Battle are like these, both I play but not sure if they play like Smash.
...meh. The announcement of the Kickstarter-funded Fraymakers has taken away my attention from this game. I mean, I wanted Indie Pogo to come to Switch, but now that Fraymakers has become a thing (at least, in development) I simply lost interest for this one.
Let's be honest: who hasn't fantasized about Lilac or Octodad or Shovel Knight being included in Smash? This is pretty darn close.
@Retro_Player_77
Clayfighter 63 1/3 for Nintendo 64 had Earthworm Jim as a fighter.
Finally, I’ve been hoping for this since Kickstarter (Switch didn’t support Game Maker back then).
@Kehkou Yeah but ClayFighter 63 1/3 plays more like a Street Fighter / Mortal Kombat arcade style fighting game different from Smash and it only had two players. DrDaisy was talking about Smash style fighting games where up to 4-Players could battle.
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