I distinctly keep in mind the primary time I noticed Lysfanga: The Time Shift Warrior. It was throughout Summer time Recreation Fest final 12 months, and the sport’s temporary minute-long reveal trailer was sufficient to depart a long-lasting impression. I’ve been trying ahead to enjoying it ever since. My endurance has been rewarded with the information that Lysfanga: The Time Shift Warrior will launch on February thirteenth on PC.

Lysfanga’s trailer provides you a good suggestion of what you’ll be able to anticipate — this can be a sport the place you’ll make use of time journey and your previous lives to battle monsters — however it could possibly’t fairly seize how fascinating and deep these time journey powers are. Within the lead-up to this announcement, I spoke with Lysfanga’s builders at Sand Door Studio and had an opportunity to get a hands-on expertise with the sport’s first degree.

Thibault Legouet, sport director and lead sport designer at Sand Door, says that he at all times cherished time journey in video video games however felt that these powers had been at all times utilized in the identical method. “[Time travel] was utilized in puzzles or in tales primarily with no regard to gameplay,” Legouet says. “And I actually wished to place it within the middle of the gameplay in a method that wasn’t completed [before].”

The primary conceit of Lysfanga is that every battle is greater than a easy fight encounter; it’s additionally a puzzle to be solved. You’re given an enviornment stuffed with enemies that you should defeat inside a sure period of time and a specific amount of possibilities. As soon as that point is up, you might be teleported again to the start of the battle and compelled to do it over once more, this time along with your “remnant” aiding you, killing the identical enemies you killed within the earlier loop. The variety of “possibilities” you could have determines what number of instances you must kill each enemy and full the encounter.

You understand how in racing video games you’ll be able to race in opposition to your self as a ghost driver? Lysfanga’s core gameplay loop is that however with combating.

Although I solely performed possibly three whole fights, that little little bit of time was sufficient to validate my earlier anticipation for this sport. There are a whole lot of video games that provide you with timey-wimey powers (hell, I used to be simply speaking about such a sport final week). However there’s one thing particular in the way in which Lysfanga makes use of these powers and offers you a time restrict alongside along with your previous lives to work with, along with a number of fight talents and particular enemies that require thought and uncooked energy to take down.

There’s a demo popping out throughout Steam’s Subsequent Fest occurring February fifth via the twelfth, and the sport launches on Steam and the Epic Video games Retailer on February thirteenth.