During today’s Nintendo Indie World presentation, we got a narrower time frame for when and where we’ll be able to play the next project from Drinkbox Studios. The team announced that Blighted will be coming out in this fall for both the Nintendo Switch 2 and for PC. It’ll arrive on the same date for both platforms, but we don’t have any more specific timeline than the season.
We first heard about Blighted during last year’s Summer Games Fest. With past credits such as Guacamelee!, Guacamelee! 2 and Severed, the studio is now turning its eye toward a 3D Metroidvania-RPG. It may be a new direction in genre, but Drinkbox’s signature moody, eerie vibes do seem to be returning in heaps for Blighted. The core premise of the game revolves around the player regaining lost communal memories and also eating brains, so it’s definitely heavy on the surreal and slightly macabre. Blighted will also have options for both solo and co-op play of its story.
