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Eerie trailer welcomes Crawl to Steam Early Access
Having survived a brief delay, Powerhoof's Crawl arrives on Steam Early Access alongside the most melodramatic trailer you'll see today. In keeping with its title, Crawl is a multiplayer dungeon crawl that casts one player as the heroic human and the others as ghosts inhabiting the depths. As per standard dungeon ghost protocol, the living are viewed as anathema, so the spirits do everything in their power (which includes summoning beasts and setting off traps) to snuff out the aforementioned hero. Once a ghost kills a human, the ghost then becomes human, allowing the former victim a shot at wrecking the world of the living. With up to four players occupying a single dungeon, you can see how this would get hectic very quickly. Those interested in taking Crawl for a spin can grab the Early Access release for $10. Like all Early Access games Crawl is not yet a finished product, so don't be surprised if you find a few bugs. [Image: Powerhoof]
Crawl devs devise a better way to announce a delay
Just like Mother always said: "If you have to deliver bad news, use a gif." Crawl, the monster-infested multiplayer dungeon crawler from Powerhoof, won't launch on its promised July 17 date. Powerhoof is an independent studio in Melbourne, Australia, and the team has run into tax issues that prevent the game from coming out on time. Right now, founders David Lloyd and Barney Cumming are waiting to clear the final pieces of red tape as they transform Powerhoof from a partnership into a company, meaning a delay of days or weeks. "Everything was on track until pretty much the last step, where we got hit with an unexpected bit of red tape that we were told 'may take up to 30 days' to resolve," Cumming writes. "We tried to find a way around it, but there's nothing we can do." Crawl is ready to roll, Cumming says, so with the extra time, he and Lloyd will look at adding some of their wishlist ideas. Crawl was Greenlit in March, and we thought it was the clear standout from that batch of 50 games. It's a pixelated multiplayer montser mash, where one player is the hero and the rest are evil beasties out to kill him – the monster who kills the hero becomes the hero, and the goal of the game is to escape the dungeons. It's like Evolve had a baby with Binding of Isaac (and didn't name it Isaac). Crawl is due out on Steam for PC, Mac and Linux. [Image: Powerhoof]
Crawl, Super Chibi Knight headline Steam Greenlight's latest 50
The pixelated multiplayer madness of Crawl makes it stand out as the one to watch from Steam Greenlight's newest batch of approvals. The Windows, Mac, and Linux dungeon crawler combines retro-inspired action-RPG gameplay with a frenzied multiplayer in which one player controls the Hero, and up to three others play as monsters and traps. The twist is if the Hero is slain by one of the opponents, that player gets to take the Hero's place. Australian two-man outfit Powerhoof only put the game on Greenlight this week, but its debut trailer caught enough attention to speed it past the gates in a single day. Powerhoof says an early-access build is coming "as soon as possible," and while the prototype only features local multiplayer, the dev is exploring the possibility of online multiplayer. Crawl is due for full release in the first half of this year, and beyond that, Powerhoof's expressed interest in bringing its game to consoles. Super Chibi Knight looks to be another to keep an eye on, and there's extra good news for father-and-daughter team behind it because their game just surpassed its Kickstarter goal. The cutesy RPG adventure is due sometime this summer. The full list of the 50 approved games can be found on Steam Greenlight. [Image: Powerhoof]
