If you’re in the mood for a bit of mayhem, Devolver Digital would like a word. The publisher’s just unveiled Mycopunk, a new limb-slicing, robo-leaping mission-based co-op FPS that’s coming to Steam from developer Pigeons at Play later this year.
Mycopunk’s very silly action whisks players to a far-flung sci-fi future, where, as employees of space travel company Saxon, they’re ordered to go investigate a distant moon and find out why communication has been lost. It’s probably not much of a spoiler, given the title, to reveal the answer to that “why” is a fungal catastrophe, and it’s up to players – as a rag tag team of extermination robots – to clean it all up.
What you have, then, is a mission-based co-op FPS inspired by the likes of Risk of Rain, with a focus on movement, weird guns, and an outlandish upgrade system that – as Pigeons at Play explained during a recent press showing – is designed to create cool builds that break the game “in a good way”. To that end, Mycopunk features four distinct characters, all pretty agile, that offer synergies when used together, but are all powerful enough that they’ll work solo. And with no character limits, all four players can use the same character if they desire.
There’s the Wrangler – the most agile of the bunch – that has an air dash and a rocket lasso they can use to yank themselves in different directions, even grab parts or other players. The Bruiser, meanwhile, is more about up close and personal combat; they come armed with a shotgun and projector shield that can push enemies back, deflect bullets, even be slammed into the ground, causing everyone – including allies – to launch violently into the air.