Dragon Age writer teases a new arcane deckbuilder from his Stray Gods studio

A crippled called Malys, hoooo yeahhhh

Image credit: Summerfall Studios

The folks who made roleplaying philharmonic Stray Gods person announced they're moving connected a caller arcane deckbuilder successful which you play a "former clergyman turned exorcist and demon hunter". The crippled is called Malys and (as with the studio's erstwhile game) it's being led by erstwhile Dragon Age writer David Gaider, which astir apt means a clump of magical sarcasm and harrowing deaths. It's precise aboriginal days though - the crippled hasn't yet launched a planned Kickstarter.

Here's a spot of statement from that Kickstarter page.

"The metropolis teems with demons, and among them lies your prey: Malys, a demon of bonzer cunning and power. Use your platform to exposure the rot within. Find unsocial combinations and strategies to withstand the horrors. Help the hopeless and escaped the possessed, oregon dice successful the attempt… implicit and implicit again."

And that's truly each we've got to spell connected for now, isolated from the committedness that the crippled volition beryllium "pushing the boundaries of roguelite storytelling and delivering a satisfyingly moody experience". You mightiness anticipation so, with a communicative pb arsenic experienced arsenic this. Gaider, was pb writer connected Dragon Age: Origins and Inquisition but near BioWare successful 2016 to enactment elsewhere, earlier yet mounting up a caller company, Summerfall Studios.

Malys seems rather antithetic to the studio's archetypal game. Stray Gods was a branching azygous subordinate escapade crippled astir the Greek gods trying to beryllium successful a modern US city, but with singing. Every country would yet spot its formed burst into song, harmonising successful a sometimes combative, sometimes cooperative manner. Then you could take what lyrics to sing next, and successful what style. It besides got immoderate DLC featuring OG bittersweet lad Orpheus a twelvemonth aft release.

"Stray Gods handles large emotions and epic poem tragedies with a dignified touch," said Jon Bailes successful our reappraisal of the mythical musical, "then shimmies backmost to mischief and humour similar an particularly supple salsa dancer." It's true. I played it connected a play whim and liked it, though I hold with our reappraisal that determination was much than a whiff of Whedon successful its quippiness.

We'll support an oculus retired for Malys and whether oregon not it hits its crowdfunding target.