On show throughout each the Guerilla Collective occasion and the Latin American Video games Showcase 2024, Bittersweet Birthday is an action-RPG that fuses Soulslike dodging with bullet hell chaos. The story-driven journey is aiming for a selected kind of problem, and a demo is now dwell forward of a deliberate Q2 2025 launch.

The beginning of Bittersweet Birthday — which has World Eater Video games growing and DANGEN Leisure publishing — finds you waking up with none recollections. As you try to flee the hazards lurking on this mysterious location, a voice comes by way of the speaker system and presents a method of escape. From there, you’ll have to choose up the items of your previous and enterprise forth by way of the challenges that await.

You may get an concept of how the story unfolds and see a few of the promised multi-phase boss battles within the announcement trailer under.

The workforce at World Eater Video games first launched an Indiegogo marketing campaign for Bittersweet Birthday again in August 2021. 341 backers pushed it previous its $23,000 aim to make growth a chance, and now you may strive it for your self in a demo that’s dwell on Steam. 

Past the enigmatic narrative and intense battles, Bittersweet Birthday has a couple of methods for gamers to stretch out and loosen up in its world. There are mini video games like darts and gachapon, the latter of which has 48 collectibles to choose up whereas taking part in. There are additionally aspect quests that provide you with an opportunity to seek out secrets and techniques and unlock extra Recollections.  

The workforce cites a handful of inspirations, together with The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Masks, Undertale, Hyper Gentle Drifter, OneShot, and the Monster Hunter sequence. When Bittersweet Birthday launches subsequent 12 months, will probably be obtainable on PlayStation 5, Xbox Collection X|S, Nintendo Swap, and PC.