Haste: Damaged Worlds takes the stress-free loop of sliding down and leaping off hills from iOS traditional Tiny Wings and turns it into an exciting, high-speed, and 3D roguelike.
In Haste, you play as Zoe, a woman who sometimes delivers letters however has discovered herself mysteriously transported to the brand new worlds you run by way of. After I say run, I imply it: Zoe cannons by way of the sport.
Ranges are stuffed with rolling hills, and your purpose is to leap off the upslopes and land on the downslopes. The higher your landings, the extra you’ll enhance your velocity and construct a lift meter that can be utilized for issues like a burst ahead or a grappling hook.
Picture: Landfall
You’re incentivized to maintain your velocity up. The sooner you full a stage, the upper grade you’ll get; greater grades offer you higher bonuses of issues like “sparks,” which you need to use to purchase gadgets.
All through the colourful, procedurally generated ranges, you’ll additionally need to keep away from obstacles like rocks, large Sarlacc-like pits, and machines that shoot lasers and bullets at you. For those who crash into an object, you’ll lose well being and decelerate. For those who’re too gradual, a crackling, damaging vitality will sneak up behind you. For those who run out of well being, you’ll lose a life. Lose all of your lives, and your run will finish.
There are some acquainted roguelike mechanics in Haste, like a forex you’ll be able to spend between runs to completely enhance issues like your well being and increase meters. Throughout runs, you’ll additionally decide every stage on a map. Haste has an incredible map function that allows you to decide some or all your route upfront so as to play a collection of ranges with out interruption. It actually helps with the momentum.
When issues are going effectively, it’s straightforward to succeed in an incredible circulate state the place you’re leaping from hills at breakneck velocity, timing your landings and boosts, dodging obstacles in your path, and racing to the tip of each stage as quick as you’ll be able to.
However on the finish of every zone (technically a “shard”), there’s a big boss — like a large flying snake — they usually have been usually whole buzzkills. The boss ranges drive you to run by way of extra open-ended zones as an alternative of simply blasting ahead, and the sport simply isn’t as enjoyable and feels more durable within the open environments. Fortunately, you’ll be able to change the sport’s problem stage.
The sport’s storytelling messes up the circulate, too. You’ll meet a bunch of characters, and whereas their personalities are enjoyable and their character portraits are illustrated effectively, they usually present up in prolonged, pressured conversations between ranges. For a sport known as Haste, there are a number of lengthy chats!
These quibbles solely detracted slightly from how a lot I loved Haste. At its finest, Haste retains you on the sting of your seat as you leap up and down from hills and careen by way of worlds. However when the sport adjustments tempo, it may be irritating. I simply wish to go quick.
Haste: Damaged Worlds is now obtainable on PC.