Oh, Chook: Check Out Crowsworn, A Bloodborne-y Metroidvania That is A Hit On Kickstarter

Sufficient video games have taken their cues from From Tool’s Unlit Souls and Bloodborne video games that “Souls-enjoy” is starting to become its have vogue, nonetheless we cannot convey that we mind — in particular when the video games watch this factual.

Crowsworn is unabashedly Bloodborne-y in its presentation, with cathedrals and Victorian lampposts up the wazoo, plus the main personality is a develop of crow/plague doctor with a scythe for a weapon. It be superbly on the nose (or on the beak, per chance), and we bloody enjoy it. Inject that Victoriana appropriate into our veins, thanks.

However Crowsworn differs from Bloodborne in about a key suggestions: within the starting put, it be a 2D fight sport, and secondly, it be a Metroidvania. It be furthermore entirely hand-drawn and fascinating, and within the waste — and most significantly — it be coming to Swap, now not like Bloodborne.

Reaching its Kickstarter funding purpose in no longer as much as 24 hours, and for the time being reaching towards the stretch purpose of adding direct acting (name us, our crow impression is fine), Crowsworn has clearly chanced on a right and mad audience already. You can also assist it yourselves in deliver for you to ensure yourself a duplicate, invent an in-sport boss, or use yourselves some Crowsworn merch, including an art e book, a plush, and a t-shirt, made in league with Fangamer.

Moderately excitingly, there is already a assured physical version, which is ready to possess a invent from comic and Magic the Gathering artist Dave Rapoza, which — no matter being described as “no longer closing” — is very honest:

The most up-to-date supply estimate is December 2023, so it be likely that we are going to have the option to also no longer be adventuring in Corvid Land till Covid Land is over (fingers/feathers crossed).

(Additionally, as editor and wordsmith Gavin Lane factors out: the title is very nearly a palindrome. Is that necessary? Potentially no longer, nonetheless it with out a doubt’s frigid, innit?)