Apogee and The Matte Black Studio Announce Celesteoidvania Game LUCID Launching in 2024
Apogee Entertainment is a name many older gamers will remember from titles like Duke Nukem and Raptor: Call of the Shadows back in the day and newer fans might know them from titles like Turbo Overkill.
Now, they’ve teamed up with Eric Manahan from The Matte Black Studio to announce a new adventure platformer called LUCID. Described as a Celestoidvania, the action-packed game will try to follow “the movement tech of Celeste, the precision platforming of Cave Story, and the world-building of Souls-like giants.” That sounds like a pretty tall order and if they pull it off it’ll be great.
Explore Aedyn, an enigmatic land replete with crystals, in the wake of the apocalyptic Great Fall. The Lucid Giant has fallen and only the few remaining Sentinels, practitioners of the Crystal Arts, can stop the corruption soaking the land. Take up the fight as Oenn, a young, stone-skinned Junior Sentinel. Seek the shattered pieces of the Lucid Giant and confront the ancient, celestial entity which threatens Aedyn.
As you play LUCID, you’ll gather five Crystal Arts after completing dungeons. These will enhance your abilities in combat and your mobility to help you defeat stronger enemies and reach previously unaccessible areas. You can even equip up to two Crystal Arts at a time and swap between them mid-combo for more potential. Talking about the game, Manahan said:
With LUCID, I’m devoted to letting players tell as much of the story as they like, in precisely their own way. From the narrative threads you choose to tug on, to the Crystal Arts and movement tech you embrace the most, LUCID aims to let you write your own legend in a shattered world of platforming bliss.
Scott Miller of Apogee shared:
Apogee got its start with some pretty famous platform games in the early ‘90s, like Commander Keen, Duke Nukem, Cosmo’s Cosmic Canyon, Bio Menace, and Monster Bash. It makes total sense for us to get back into platformers and with LUCID, we finally found one that’s innovative, deep with story, and has a super fun lead character with a ton of tricks up his jacket sleeve.
You can add LUCID to your wishlist on Steam now with a planned release date of “COMING SOON.” I just wouldn’t hold my breath though as the press release does state that the game will be coming to Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S in 2024. Check out the trailer below and let me know if you’re interested in this game.
