Why haven’t we figured this out much sooner? A mecha-based boomer-shooter! Rad!
Mekkabloood: Quarry Assault is a first-person shooter designed to replicate the style of early 90s FPS, complete with 2D sprites, repetitive texture tiling, and secrets to discover.
The twist? You’re in a giant robot. A Mekk, to be precise. Instead of seeing a sprite of the player character’s arm holding a gun, they’re holding on a HOTAS sitting in a cockpit surrounded by toys, junk food and trash.
That does mean a lot of the screen real estate is dedicated in letting you know you’re piloting a mech, with the effective vision of the world being a small part of the screen, but that’s the charm of it all.
Mekkabloood: Quarry Assault, you play as former trucker Bill in the year of 2082. Apparently he has a claim to mine full of Fluxiam-7, so much that ToxCorp has stolen all of Bill’s figurines (and kidnapped his girlfriend) in order to get the claim. Unfortunately for the corpos, Bill aims to fight back with a Mekk.
The story is as cheesy as you get, fitting for a retro-FPS. But the heavy metal in the recent gameplay trailer as seen on PC Gaming Show Most Wanted showcase sure is a headbanger.
Mekkabloood: Quarry Assault is developed by solo developer KRUMB Games and published by Judatone Studios. The game is slated for release in January 2025 on PC (Steam).