Fulqrum Publishing and Cresthelm Studios are today thrilled to announce that ‘Chapter One’ of retro-inspired first-person shooter Diluvian Ultra is arriving on PC on the 28th of September 2023, via Steam, GOG and Epic Games Store.
Cresthelm are combining fast-paced strategic combat with tactical weapon-mixing to offer a challenging experience for veterans of the genre. The game features a vibrant pixel-art aesthetic that captures the retro shooter gameplay in a colourful setting reminiscent of the pulpy covers of yesterday’s paperbacks.
Chapter one of Diluvian Ultra provides a full game’s worth of content. And Atilla’s story will be further continued in subsequent Chapters, released as DLCs. This chapter sees players aboard a living tomb-ship in deep space. You play as Prince Atilla, an immortal warrior who awakens from stasis to discover his vessel’s halls soaked in the blood of his crew. Players must use advanced bio-technology to defeat defilers and their arsenal of organic weapons, quenching their thirst for carnage.
The combat system in Diluvian Ultra is all about staying mobile. Making the best strategic decisions for each encounter. Whether that’s switching between Tech and Organic weapons, combining Lethal and Armour damage or activating a power-up. Players must find the best way to outsmart their enemies.
Levels throughout Diluvian Ultra are also varied and unique. Each holds an abundance of shrouded secrets for players to expose – from health pickups and ammo to power-ups granting incredible strength. These secrets can prove invaluable in Atilla’s quest. Alongside these secrets, players will also be on the hunt for blood to consume. Build up blood to gain focus points, which can then be used to upgrade or customise weapons.
Diluvian Ultra features
Chapter One of Diluvian Ultra features a hub and 10 levels, with 6 distinct weapons and 30 upgrades, as well as 13 aggressive enemy types.
Strategic combat
Diluvian Ultra’s combat is built around a dual-damage system where you have to combine weapons to be effective. Armour absorbs damage, but some weapons are designed to quickly strip it off your targets – unable to kill them, but exposing them for a single lethal blow. You have to be careful, though, as enemies will mix their attacks in the same way. Collect and consume blood to upgrade your weapons. Pick up various power-ups at the opportune moment, to become vengeance incarnate – if only for a while!
Keep it moving
Surviving in Diluvian Ultra is all about mobility. Dodge enemy fire while you chain together ranged attacks with close combat blows and devastating ground slams. Double-jump, dash, find cover and even deflect projectiles with your sword, but never stay in one place for too long!
Organic philosophy
Your spaceship home is a living combination of flesh and stone, and so it is with your arsenal of weapons; use both traditional Tech weapons as well as grotesque, living Organic armaments, and don’t forget to take good care of your closest companion, your sentient Squire Gun, Bella.
Epic story
Diluvian Ultra may be an over the top retro FPS filled with frenetic action, but all that carnage is set on a background of an epic, tragic story tackling the themes of fanaticism, trauma, betrayal and hope for redemption, playing out in neo-gothic architectural set pieces and immense, cathedral-like spaceships.
Diluvian Ultra will launch for PC via Steam on September 28, 2023.