Good news for fans of the Metroidvania genre looking for new titles to play! DOOMBLADE, a game where players team up with a sentient sword, is coming to PC devices on May 31. Iceberg Interactive and Muro Studios confirmed that the game would launch this month on Steam and other digital platforms
.Muro Studios, a two-person team based in Helsinki, Finland, has created the critically acclaimed mobile game Shadow Bug. DOOMBLADE is their second major game.
Its main story arc involves the protagonist, Gloom Girl, the lone survivor of the Gloomfolk race, teaming up with the titular DOOMBLADE, a sentient weapon. As Gloom Girl, players will join forces with DOOMBLADE in a quest to explore the fantasy worlds of the Lowlands. The game also tasks players with getting back the weapon's powers and exacting vengeance on its captors, the Dread Lords.
According to Muro Studios, it took them five years to develop DOOMBLADE. They also released several demo versions, the latest of which went live in March.
Before announcing its target release, developers Kim Valori and Juha Ylimäki shared how they came up with the game. Valori worked as its coder and designer. Ylimäki is in charge of its art and animation.
In a two-part developer's blog on Steam, they both pointed to the classic arcade games of the 90s, particularly the Metroidvania genre, as a significant source of inspiration. Furthermore, they described DOOMBLADE as their "biggest and most ambitious project."
In our earlier games, we had started experimenting with new mechanics of combat and movement in platformer games. DOOMBLADE is where all that experimentation culminates,
Valori wrote.
Muro Studios envisioned the upcoming game as a refreshing take on the Metroidvania theme. DOOMBLADE will be priced at US$17.99.