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Press release:¨
Göteborg, Sweden – March 5, 2025.
The Stockholm-based (Sweden) indie games publisher Burning Planet Digital and Gothenburg-based (Sweden) indie games developer Neckbolt (Niklas Hallin), are today very proud and excited to announce that their pixel-art metroidvania “Alruna and the Necro-Industrialists“, is now available for PC via Steam.

In a world ravaged by mechanical greed, forest-nymph Alruna must jump, slide and dash through sprawling subterranean labyrinths to get to the bottom of the story, the very bottom of the world, the very depths of depravity.

Check out the trailer: Alruna and the Necro-Industrialists – Launch Trailer – Nintendo Switch

“The Switch is great”, says solo-developer Niklas Hallin,

“especially in handheld mode. It’s such a perfect way to play pixel-art sidescrollers. I’m always looking for new pixel platformers on the Switch, and Alruna is just such a game! It feels like holding an old Game Boy in your hands.”

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 …

Will your own journey take you heavenwards, or down, down, down?

Links:

Alruna Nintendo eShop Link:
https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/alruna-and-the-necro-industrialists-switch
Alruna Nintendo Switch Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqR2xhP1wRY
Press Kit (images and details): Dropbox
Alruna and the Necro-Industrialists on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2655470/Alruna_and_the_NecroIndustrialists/

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

Will your own journey take you heavenwards, or down, down, down?

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.