Metroidvania Uruc is like Rain World but the slugcat gets a shotgun and pilots a mech | Gaming

The slugcat of Rain World is a distinct little character. He flops around, squeezing through narrow tunnels with a movement that’s both cute and mildly gross. When he is eaten by a passing disco lizard or ravenous skull-faced vulture, it is because he is basically a delicious Squirmle existing in a horrifying cryptozoological ecosystem. He is, however, never stepped upon by a mech with a missile launcher. He is never given a shotgun and tasked with shooting the other animals. Yet that basically seems to be the elevator pitch for Uruc, a sci-fi metroidvania set in a distant future where strange life battles mechanical monstrosities.

Solo developer Stefan Haasbroek has been working on the game for over a year so far, recently launching a crowdfunding…