Demo releases October 9th, full game releases October 16th.
CASTILLO: The Nine Circles, the first-person collectathon developed by Jackson Clayton will be releasing a demo for the Steam Next fest on October 9th, the full game will be releasing on Steam on October 16th, 2023. The game was featured on the Steam page for Realms Deep 2023.
The game is a mix between a collectathon and 90’s FPS and takes place in a Dante’s Inferno inspired Hell, where each of the 9 levels has 10 hidden magical shards to acquire by completing challenges, as well as a multitude of other collectibles to find. Each world has 150 money bags, 10 shards, and tons of paradox energy scattered throughout each world to clean up. To get shards, you’ll have to buy and use new movement abilities, fight bosses, complete minigames, fight through combat gauntlets, and look for hidden areas in the map. You can spend money and paradox energy to unlock new abilities or open up areas of the map. Shards you collect can be used to proceed through the circles of hell. The game takes heavy influence from 90’s collectathon games like Banjo Kazooie and Super Mario 64 and is full of secret worlds and weapons to discover.
You play as Dracula, who has been trapped in hell after the events of the previous game, hell has been overtaken and rethemed to look like an amusement park. Roller Coasters, ferris wheels, bumper cars, and carousels are now littered throughout hell as it begins to rip itself apart from a paradox.
Battle against a wide variety of enemies that populate each circle of hell, walking forks in Gluttony, sweaty hands in Lust, and talking trees in Heresy. Each of the worlds are extremely varied and unique, full of their own objectives, setpieces, and mechanics. The game features a dynamic music system which adds and removes instruments from the soundtrack based on your gameplay performance.
“I wanted to make a game that recreated how I felt the first time I played Super Mario 64 on my DS” said Jackson Clayton, the developer of the game. “I feel like I’ll never be able to fully explore the worlds in games like that. The worlds all felt so real and alive. I think that’s something we’re missing in modern games today”
CASTILLO: The Nine Circles will have a demo for the Steam Next fest on October 9th and then will be available on Steam for $9.99 on October 16th. For more information, check out the developer’s Twitter @JKClaytonDev1.
About Jackson Clayton
Jackson Clayton is the developer of Castillo: The Nine Circles. He is a student at Miami University of Ohio and this is his fourth game on Steam. Castillo: The Nine Circles is a sequel to his last game, Castillo: Shattered Mirrors.