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Please stab, toast and devour the demo for disgusting mushroom RPG Shroom And GloomFunish the fungus with fungusto
Funish the fungus with fungusto
Image credit:Team Lazerbeam
Image credit:Team Lazerbeam
Shroom and Gloom Prototype TrailerWatch on YouTube
Shroom and Gloom Prototype Trailer
The aforesaid mad human (that’s your character, yes) does not even bother to finish murdering the fungus folk before dining out on their butchered brethren. Slay a mushroom with a fireball, and you’ll render the corpse “Toasty” enough to consume, stuffing its portly, seared body into your mouth even as you slice another mushroom with a wavy dagger. If this were an actual foraging expedition you’d at least want to count the spots and gills before sinking your teeth in.
Find a fleshy prototype for Shroom And Gloom on Itch.io. It’s certainly got atmosphere, with a soiled 3D parchment world of unpleasantly nested 2D rock and vegetation. Moving along the branching path feels like crawling down somebody’s intestine. Somebody who’s been eating a lot of mushrooms, and treasure chests. Gangs of pugnacious toadstools pop up at intervals, ranging from tiddly, er -consultsUsborne Spotter’s Guide- Puffballs to rampaging Stinkhorns. Is this interesting yet, Nic? When I used to write for Edge, they’d chop your commission in half for calling things “interesting”. It was one of those banned Edge words, like “wowza” and “ginormous”.
“We’ve shot for the stars with what we tried to cram into this prototype over 3 months of development, and we’re really proud of what we pulled off,” the blurb continues. “That said, please note that this is a prototype. Expect rough edges and some jank. Keep in mind this is all a work in progress.” I hope they make it all the way to the finish, because Shroom And Gloom is my kind of desperately grim. One of the later-game card options lets you turn mushrooms into soup. I wonder if we’ll get to hear mushrooms scream. That would be interesting.
