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Press release:
Göteborg, Sweden – July 1, 2024.
The Stockholm-based (Sweden) indie games publisher Burning Planet Digital and Gothenburg-based (Sweden) indie games developer Neckbolt (Niklas Hallin), are today very pleased and proud to announce that their pixel-art metroidvania “Alruna and the Necro-Industrialists“, is coming to PC via Steam in Q3 2024.

Furthermore, Neckbolt and Burning Planet Digital has also just announced that they have released a brand-new demo for “Alruna and the Necro-Industrialists”. So be sure to give that one a go! (the said demo is available for PC via Steam right now)

Swedish solo developer embraces non-linear level design and sequence-breaking, with old-school, pixel-art metroidvania ALRUNA and the NECRO-INDUSTRIALISTS. Play the bosses out of order, why don’t you? Spawn your own Climbing Vines and sneak past difficult puzzles. Find a fifth secret temple in the east. Skip picking up any weapon and get by using only special abilities. Is it possible? Who knows!

Alruna is a dryad in a dying world – a spirit of life in the land of the dead. The earth is sucked dry. There is only The Sprawl. Poor, bedraggled skele-men dot the Wasteland of the Necro-Industrialists and shuffle endlessly back and forth in a toiling mockery of life. But are they the real enemy? Or do the skeletons suffer just as much as the dryads under the domination of the Necro-Industrialists?

Dead men yearn for Heaven. But the dead can only dig …

After a popular demo on Steam’s Next Fest in February, developer Niklas Hallin has consolidated the feedback and created a new update for the demo-version. The update includes even tighter and snappier controls, a brand new crouch-attack, and more options for button layouts on the gamepad, among other things.

Watch Alruna and the Necro-Industrialists Official Trailer 3 “Power-Ups”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbK3mX-7IOA

Wishlist ALRUNA and the NECRO-INDUSTRIALISTS on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2655470/Alruna_and_the_NecroIndustrialists/

See the previous trailers:

About Niklas Hallin
Niklas Hallin is a solo indie game developer from Göteborg, Sweden. In 2017 he released Yono and the Celestial Elephants, a Zelda-like adventure about a young and naive elephant god. The contemplative themes and detailed puzzle-design then carried over into his next game, Molly Medusa: Queen of Spit (2023), a game about a teenage medusa who accidentally turns everyone around her to stone.

About Burning Planet
ALRUNA’s heavy 8-bit soundtrack is provided by Burning Planet. What began as “Burning Planet Music” in 2015, a music production company for games, has now expanded into an in-your-face, punk driven game publisher – “Burning Planet Digital”. As a publisher, we approach an indie game as if it was a band.