Haste: Damaged Worlds takes the stress-free loop of sliding down and leaping off hills from iOS traditional Tiny Wings and turns it into an exhilarating, high-speed, and 3D roguelike.
In Haste, you play as Zoe, a lady who sometimes delivers letters however has discovered herself mysteriously transported to the brand new worlds you run by way of. After I say run, I imply it: Zoe cannons by way of the sport.
Ranges are full of rolling hills, and your aim is to leap off the upslopes and land on the downslopes. The higher your landings, the extra you’ll enhance your velocity and construct a lift meter that can be utilized for issues like a burst ahead or a grappling hook.
You’re incentivized to maintain your velocity up. The sooner you full a stage, the upper grade you’ll get; greater grades provide you with higher bonuses of issues like “sparks,” which you should use to purchase objects.
All through the colourful, procedurally generated ranges, you’ll additionally must keep away from obstacles like rocks, large Sarlacc-like pits, and machines that shoot lasers and bullets at you. For those who crash into an object, you’ll lose well being and decelerate. For those who’re too sluggish, a crackling, damaging power will sneak up behind you. For those who run out of well being, you’ll lose a life. Lose all of your lives, and your run will finish.
There are some acquainted roguelike mechanics in Haste, like a foreign money you may spend between runs to completely enhance issues like your well being and increase meters. Throughout runs, you’ll additionally choose every stage on a map. Haste has an incredible map characteristic that allows you to choose some or your entire route prematurely in an effort to play a collection of ranges with out interruption. It actually helps with the momentum.
When issues are going properly, it’s straightforward to succeed in a tremendous move state the place you’re leaping from hills at breakneck velocity, timing your landings and boosts, dodging obstacles in your path, and racing to the top of each stage as quick as you may.
However on the finish of every zone (technically a “shard”), there’s a big boss — like an enormous flying snake — they usually had been usually complete buzzkills. The boss ranges power you to run by way of extra open-ended zones as a substitute of simply blasting ahead, and the sport simply isn’t as enjoyable and feels harder within the open environments. Fortunately, you may change the sport’s problem stage.
The sport’s storytelling messes up the move, too. You’ll meet a bunch of characters, and whereas their personalities are enjoyable and their character portraits are illustrated properly, they usually present up in prolonged, compelled conversations between ranges. For a recreation known as Haste, there are loads of lengthy chats!
These quibbles solely detracted slightly from how a lot I loved Haste. At its finest, Haste retains you on the sting of your seat as you leap up and down from hills and careen by way of worlds. However when the sport adjustments tempo, it may be irritating. I simply need to go quick.
Haste: Damaged Worlds is now obtainable on PC.