Landfall, the brilliant minds that shadow-dropped Content Warning last year and the makers of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, Clustertruck, Stick Fight: The Game and many other indie hits, have did it again.
They shadowdropped another game on April Fool’s Day.
But it’s not a funny game though. Haste: Broken Worlds is described as a “single-player roguelike” as well as “high-speed third-person running game”.
Take a look at the game and you could see this is the platonic ideal of high-speed platformers. You move ridiculous fast, and you have a lot of control on how to navigate the many hazards being thrown at you at high speeds.
Think Clustertruck, but third-person, faster and less trucks but just as chaotic.
Haste was prototyped in 2021, but posts of the prototype on the site many still call Twitter went viral convinced the team at Landfall to turn this game designed by Wilhelm Nylund into a full title.
The twist is that Haste is a roguelike, which sounds mundane in the sea of many, many roguelikes. But in this context, the platforming isn’t about memorising, it’s about skillfully adapting to unexpected ways the procedurally generated world around you will collapse in, which is cool.
With four abilities, challenge levels, multiple bosses, and an endless mode, there’s some content here to sink into Haste.
If you find this interesting, make haste to Haste: Broken Worlds’ Steam page. The game is out now on PC (Steam). A free demo is available.