Little Devil Inside — A Charming Game Of Survival
At this point, I’m just wondering how I missed this little gem of a game from the developers at Neostream. Little Devil Inside has 7 days left to go on its Kickstarter campaign, and it would be a real shame if the title didn’t meet its funding goal. The developers credit games like X-Com, Zelda, and System Shock for its root inspirations. Animation-wise, it does indeed bring back fond memories of games like Wind Waker specifically, but with a wondrous flair all its own. The world they have created is beautiful in its simplicity, but that simplicity doesn’t necessarily extend to the gameplay. Neostream is attempting to blend the action RPG and survival genre into something truly unique, and the combat system already boasts some slick animations and a surprising amount of viciousness.
Your capable yet decidedly human protagonist works for a professor, who needs you to handle the riskier missions related to bringing back artifacts and materials for his research. If you watch the trailer, you can see he even accompanies you on some of your journey. This leads us to one of the more intriguing parts of the game — that of faculty management. Since you work for the professor, you also maintain part of the faculty you work for, and are able to hire members of your team, and send them on various missions and the like. Hopefully the management portion doesn’t stop there. Systems like that can really add another level of replayability and motivation for the player to travel back to home base between missions.
The game will also allow for co-op play, and if funded will be released for Steam (Windows, Mac, and Linux) as well as PS4 and XBox One.
If Little Devil Inside looks like a potential winner, make sure to throw them your support on their Kickstarter Page, or just spread the word. I mean c'mon, do you really want to make this little guy sad?
