Roguelite Aura of Worlds launching Tuesday, Sept. 24, on Nintendo Switch and Steam

Aura of Worlds - developed by Cognitive Forge and published on console by Hidden Trap - will soon be available on Nintendo Switch!

The game is also graduating from Steam Early Access - delivering a full 1.0 Steam release filled to the brim with goodies, new features, performance updates, and other enhancements.

A WORLD OF POSSIBILITIES
A roguelite where improvisation and know-how surpass stats, Aura of Worlds gives you the freedom to fight, explore, and fully interact with your environment. Demanding sharp wit and precise reflexes, the game encourages creativity: Should you just loot the cursed treasure chest (like it goads you to) or wield it as a weapon? Follow the enemy-laden path ahead, or make your own? Blink, bounce, grapple or fly across lava pits or just blow them up in a glorious spray of embers? In Aura of Worlds, ingenuity and craziness often work to your advantage!

Featuring pixel-perfect visuals and an earworm-worthy chiptune soundtrack, Aura of Worlds will have you traverse ever-changing death labyrinths - turning adversity into advantage. Escape flooding passages, outrun toxic pollen, and face off against gargantuan bosses. Do you go on defense with a spear and energy shield. .. or swing into the fray with a boomerang, grappling hook, and a grin? The choices - unlike your health potions - are endless.

KEY FEATURES

  • Wide Array of Skills: Grab, throw, hack, light, parkour, terraform, and warp time itself!

Challenging Traps, Many Solutions: Throw an enemy into a laser field, blink through it - or blow up the power conduit; put your creativity to the test!

  • Endless Levels: With 100+ unique enemies and traps and over 14 randomized level themes, you can navigate mine-filled tidal corridors, rising lava, carnivorous plant-lined caverns, and more.

  • Thrilling Boss Fights: Outwit and outmaneuver powerful guardians at the end of each world.

One Object, Multiple Possibilities: With multi-use objects, a humble lantern can be grabbed, carried for light, shot or thrown as a Molotov cocktail.

  • Customize Your Gameplay: Choose from a multitude of weapons, items, abilities, pets, modifiers, upgrades, and more.

  • Always evolving: Progress between runs with a wide array of optional unlocks including upgrades, items, character backgrounds, pets and world shortcuts.

  • Rescue missions: Locate friends in need of a helping hand!

  • Gorgeous Pixel Art: Hand-crafted pixel art and animations by Rex Smeal, Han Cheon, T-Dog eXtreme, Danika Clark, and August Cartland.

  • Immersive Sound: Experience a memorable score and sound effects from the prolific Mat Dwyer and Amanda J. Lim.

18. September 2024, von Thore Varga