Pre-order Shoulders of Giants at this time on the Xbox Store, out there January 26
After virtually three years of improvement, we’re overjoyed to announce that Shoulders of Giants is now out there for pre-order. The recreation can be launched on January 26, 2023, on Xbox! Check out the latest trailer above that includes a mixture of single-player and co-op mayhem.
One of the very first concepts we had once we began making Shoulders of Giants, was the silhouette of a smaller character driving on the again of a a lot larger character. And then we thought, what should you might management each of these characters directly? How would that work? Would that be enjoyable?
It took lots of experimentation and prototyping to seek out the candy spot, and an expertise that felt contemporary but acquainted. We thought, what if we cut up up sorts of fight between these characters, one character does all the melee, and is a giant highly effective mech? And the different character perched atop its again a small, nimble, gun wielding frog?
Once we discovered this mixture, we knew we had discovered the core of the recreation. The subsequent query we requested ourselves was, what sort of world would these characters be in? What would their objective be in the recreation?
We have at all times been big followers of science fiction, and knew we needed a world the place there was a darkish pressure these heroes needed to overcome, the traditional theme of darkish versus gentle. But how might we really take this theme and create an interactive method for the participant to expertise it?
We imagined after an intense boss battle having the complete world remodel from barren and darkish, to vibrant, lush and full of life in a cinematic method. We experimented with real-time methods the participant might do that, and located it to be enjoyable and thrilling and it grew to become a pillar of the gamers skills.
Speaking of skills, the final core thought behind the recreation was that we needed Shoulders of Giants to really feel like a colourful playground with an enormous arsenal of sci-fi devices and weapons for the participant to discover and tinker with.
Players encounter weapons and skills like a firework-shooting grenade launcher, an enormous stomping shoe, a surfable defend, and far more. The core fight is all about experimenting with totally different combos of tools to seek out that tremendous combo that retains issues feeling contemporary and thrilling.
While fight is the most important gameplay pillar, we knew that we needed a narrative for the recreation to happen in and for the characters and world to really feel grounded too. The forces of entropy have taken over the universe, it’s the gamers job to fight this darkish pressure and to revive order and stability again to the universe.
As you beat extra ranges and save extra worlds from the forces of entropy, you’ll construct up your warmth meter, permitting you to entry more and more tough ranges. As you move sure warmth thresholds, you’ll unlock particular story boss encounters as you make your solution to the last boss.
Along the method, you’ll purchase new weapons for each Froggie and the heroic Robot of the Galaxy in addition to new items of armor, XP to spend in your talent tree, and dyes to additional customise the look of your characters.
While you may customise your personal frog and robotic with dozens of cosmetics which are unlockable in-game, the 4 above can solely be acquired as a bonus for pre-ordering the recreation:
This pre-order bonus consists of 4 coloration units, so that you and as much as three co-op mates can save the universe in type proper from the begin of the recreation.
Even higher, the recreation is 20% off throughout this pre-order interval. For extra info, try the recreation’s retailer web page and official web site, or be part of our discord.
Shoulders of Giants
Moving Pieces Interactive
$19.99
$15.99
Simultaneously management a sword-wielding robotic and a gunslinging area frog in Shoulders of Giants, an explosively colourful sci-fi roguelike. Play alone, with a buddy, or as half of a four-person group, reducing via waves of enemies on a quest to rescue the galaxy!
The forces of Entropy are spreading chaos via the stars, corrupting dwelling planets and urging on the warmth loss of life of the universe. Led by the psychic Owl, one scrappy group of area survivors are preventing to revive the stability. A mysterious mech! A sharpshooting amphibian! Together they need to lower via waves of enemies and restore gentle and life to the galaxy!
Pre-order the recreation for entry to limited-edition dye units with particular visible results. Dazzle your mates!
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