Humble Games and Exit 73 Studios have confirmed a release date for their “delightfully zany” animated dungeon crawler #BLUD on Nintendo Switch.
Promising to blur the line “between action RPGs and hyperkinetic ’90s cartoons,” slaying the undead is just another day at Carpentersville High for Becky Brewster.
The new kid in town is the latest in an ancient bloodline of spellcasting vampire hunters, who will root out demonic infestations by perusing the town’s social media, dealing damage with your trusty fiend-thwacking field hockey stick and taking selfies with demonic forces to analyse their weaknesses.
The publisher has outlined the game’s key features, which include:
- Slay the vampiric legions: Take on a delightfully macabre menagerie of outrageously mutated animals and vampirically possessed townsfolk. Engage in epic, energetic boss battles as you defend your hometown.
- Small-town dungeon crawl: Hunt the forces of evil in high school halls, convenience store aisles, and shopping malls. Discover and accept missions from the town’s social media, and track down evil (and other after-school plans) with modern tech.
- In a class of your own: Freshman life is ultrafast-paced—even more so when you’re the vampire-hunting new kid. Assist and befriend and assist a comic cast of quirky and memorable classmates as you find your place as a teenager in the world of #BLUD.
- Upgrade your field arsenal: Discover and earn upgrades for Becky’s trusty vampire-slaying field hockey stick to face the mounting challenges, including handy attachments like a grappling hook, shovel, and umbrella shield.
- Uncover fiendish mysteries: Research the demonic legions through means archaic and new. Translate your family’s mystic grimoire, and snap selfies with monsters to tag their strengths and weaknesses (just don’t let them bite you!).
- Lively undead animated adventure: BLUD is brought to life by Exit 73 Studios, a team of creators with a passion for traditional hand-drawn 2D illustration and animation, the joyous and jubilant cartoons of the modern era, and game development.
#BLUD will be released digitally on the Nintendo eShop for Nintendo Switch worldwide on 18 June 2024.
