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Another elephantine mythical worm is coming to eat you later this summer.
Messhof
Blood Dungeon is nan caller crippled from Nidhogg and Wheel World workplace Messhof, and it looks for illustration a silly platforming messiness complete pinch MS Paint-style graphics, twitchy mechanics and, of course, elephantine flying worms. These are each affirmative descriptors, clearly.
Blood Dungeon is simply a hand-animated, auto-shooting 2D platformer that features six arenas, 9 unsocial playable characters, much than 100 weapons and complete 100 force types. The mostly of these features are unlocked arsenic you beforehand done nan maps dodging traps, collecting resources and kiting enemies to strategical locations. Each shape has plentifulness of platforms, obviously, but besides nets, ladders, chains and h2o areas to support things absorbing arsenic hordes of enemies hunt you down.
Messhof
Blood Dungeon is due to hit PC and consoles successful precocious summertime this year.
In nan game's uncover trailer, portion of nan Day of nan Devs 2026 summertime showcase, Messhof co-founder Mark Essen clarified that Blood Dungeon is not a Metroidvania because you're not upgrading abilities arsenic you go. He described it arsenic thing like Vampire Survivors blended pinch Spelunky, saying, "It's for illustration these different subsister games you've astir apt played wherever you're kiting nan enemies and they're benignant of pursuing you successful a large mass. But successful this game, you're successful a maze arsenic well. A maze pinch gravity. It's really a crippled astir routing."
Messhof
The game's bad guys see a elephantine Medusa head, a faun playing a cookware flute, spooky ghosts, skittering bugs, each kinds of animals and a large ol' worm. The superior playable characteristic is called Gun Man and he benignant of looks for illustration a babe successful a onesie (as drawn by a mediate schooler successful nan machine laboratory successful 1997), but further heroes see a hooded skeleton, naked buff dude, large buzzing insect and different cool cats. Note that location are nary existent feline characters that we tin spot successful nan game's uncover trailer, but pinch much than 100 enemies, location could beryllium 1 aliases 2 successful nan mix.
Messhof was founded successful 2013 by Essen and shaper Kristy Norindr, successful Venice, California. Nidhogg and Nidhogg II are indie classics from nan 2010s, featuring an elegant yet silly blend of fencing and tug-of-war mechanics, positive immoderate archery successful nan sequel. Both games besides characteristic a elephantine mythological worm that flies successful astatine nan extremity of each lucifer to devour nan victor. Looks for illustration warfare isn't nan only point that ne'er changes.
