"Next Fest" for Alruna was great!
ALRUNA and the NECRO-INDUSTRIALISTS, a brilliant pixel-art metroidvania from a solo developer Niklas Hallin, is coming to Steam during Q2 2024 - and now playable through an updated demo!
Experience non-linear level design and order-breaking gameplay as you descend into the world of Alruna, a drylander battling the Necro-Industrialists in a dying empire.
ALRUNA and the NECRO-INDUSTRIALISTS is coming to Steam!
Göteborg, Sweden – April 10, 2024 – Swedish solo developer embraces non-linear level design and sequence-breaking, with old-school, pixel-art metroidvania. Play the bosses out of order, why don’t you? Spawn your own Climbing Vines and sneak past difficult puzzles. Find a fifth secret temple in the east. Skip picking up any weapon and get by using only special abilities. Is it possible? Who knows!
Alruna is a dryad in a dying world – a spirit of life in the land of the dead. The earth is sucked dry. There is only The Sprawl. Poor, bedraggled skele-men dot the Wasteland of the Necro-Industrialists and shuffle endlessly back and forth in a toiling mockery of life. But are they the real enemy? Or do the skeletons suffer just as much as the dryads under the domination of the Necro-Industrialists?
Dead men yearn for Heaven. But the dead can only dig …
After a popular demo on Steam’s Next Fest in February, developer Niklas Hallin has consolidated the feedback and created a new update for the demo-version. The update includes even tighter and snappier controls, a brand new crouch-attack, and more options for button layouts on the gamepad, among other things.
Wishlist ALRUNA and the NECRO-INDUSTRIALISTS on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2655470/Alruna_and_the_NecroIndustrialists/
First Youtube Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCILx5wbUMU
Second Youtube Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWuPIjDYeVI
About Niklas Hallin
Niklas Hallin is a solo indie game developer from Göteborg, Sweden. In 2017 he released Yono and the Celestial Elephants, a Zelda-like adventure about a young and naive elephant god. The contemplative themes and detailed puzzle-design then carried over into his next game, Molly Medusa: Queen of Spit (2023), a game about a teenage medusa who accidentally turns everyone around her to stone.
About Burning Planet
ALRUNA’s heavy 8-bit soundtrack is provided by Burning Planet. What began as “Burning Planet Music” in 2015, a music production company for games, has now expanded into an in-your-face, punk driven game publisher – “Burning Planet Digital”. As a publisher, we approach an indie game as if it was a band.