Creature In The Well mixes some pinball into its dungeon crawling

Creature in the Well

Unlock the power of an ancient facility and face the ominous, all-seeing Creature in this unique pinball-inspired hack & slash!

During today’s Nintendo indie showcase stream, Flight School Studio had their own PC-bound weird take on the hack n’ slash dungeon crawler to announce; Creature In The Well. Part melee combat, part bullet hell, part pinball, and all stylish, thanks to a mix of comic-style shading effects that I don’t think I’ve ever seen in 3D before. Players control a sword-swinging robot as it descends into a subterranean labyrinth, defeating turret-dense security systems by deflecting bouncing bullets back into the tightly clustered defences. The announcement trailer lurks below.

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