Mike Mignola, the creator of Hellboy, has teamed up with Upstream Arcade and Dark Horse Comics to bring us an action-packed rogue-lite game that feels true to the comics.
As can be seen in the trailer, the game’s art style aims to create the feeling that you’re playing on pages that have been ripped straight from a comic book. It’s a beautiful vision and I hope they can translate it well to the rest of the game.
Although the stories in the game are each uniquely crafted adventures, they all seem to focus on ‘The Butterfly House’.
‘Built in 1962 by occultist Pasquale Deneveaux, The Butterfly House is more than a mere residence; it’s a gateway. Its perverse angles and non-Euclidean geometries were designed with a singular foul purpose in mind: to open doorways into a terrible and fascinating dimension called The Wyrd.’
The game will feature a third-person rogue-lite combat system where players will take on increasingly difficult, larger enemies as the game progresses. Of course, you will have Hellboy’s trusty revolver and giant fist to use in magnificent combinations.
The game has no release date just yet, but we know it is being developed for all platforms, Xbox One, S and X, PS4 and 5, Switch and Steam.