Developer: Wasteland Games
Publisher: Wasteland Games
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“Feels Like The 90’s Again”
About The Game
Rusty Flesh is a sci-fi horror puzzle platformer for the Game Boy Color where you switch gravity instead of jumping. Explore the different areas of a derelict spaceship putting together all the pieces of its lovecraftian mistery, and enjoy its retro-futuristic aesthetics.
Gameplay
Rusty Flesh is a pixel masterpiece when it comes to these kinds of games. you find a derelict ship and upon investigating it you discover its crawling with monsters, lucky through a little bit of exploration or progression you will unlock a gun that should help dispatch these.
There is no jumping in Rusty Flesh instead you turn on and off gravity which actually makes for some interesting gameplay you cant just hop over and enemy and shoot them in the back instead you have to anti-gravity to the ceiling and the time your decent to take them out.
The game is not only got a story it also has puzzles, most of the puzzles here are tailored to the gun, interactable and the anti gravity / gravity swap this makes for some really interesting puzzle and some actually left me sitting here thinking well what do I do next if I cant open that door.
Throughout the game you will find switches and other interactable that are not just for world building they all have a purpose and this was quite awesome that the developer has thought of all the little things.
Other Interesting Bits
Rusty Flesh is a throw back to the 90’s in just about everyway possible and I absolutely dig it playing through this was such a blast from my childhood I could not believe how well the developer actually captured this era in the game.
The developer actually did not just release this on steam there is actually a Gameboy colour version of this which properly makes it the only Gameboy colour game ive heard of that has released in the last few years.
Our Thoughts
So going into this we didn’t want to compare this title to what is currently available on todays market we took an alternative approach and actually compared it to what was available when Gameboy was around.
We actually really enjoyed our time with the game so much so that we actually played the entire game before writing this article about the game. Rusty Flesh has some major nostalgia and it slapped us in the face and did it feel good, the game has some really cool moments, puzzles within the title are interesting and keep the brain working, enemies are fun and unique.
That being said it is a horror game and for todays age its hard to be scared or on edge by something that does look realistic, but the game does paint a horror picture well even with the art direction that it has taken.
