It might be fair to say that retro-styled first person shooters are “having a moment.” There’s already several to choose from on the market (including Pixel Titans’s Strafe, New Blood’s Dusk, and Sorgath’s Devil Daggers), and several others are currently in development. It looks like you can add Saibot Studios’s Hellbound to the latter group.
Just one glance at Hellbound’s Gameplay Trailer is enough to know that the development team was heavily inspired by id Software’s Doom, but they’re not asking players to battle back the hordes of Hell as yet another Space Marine. Instead, Hellbound’s main character, Hellgore, is a grizzled warrior that “loves killing Demons in Hell.”
Hellbound has been in development for almost two years, and Saibot is currently seeking additional funding for the game through Kickstarter. Their campaign, which just surpassed $13,000 (of its $40,000 goal), includes a glimpse at some of the game’s very Doom-like concept art and gameplay mechanics. Potential backers also have the ability to try before they buy as the development team recently launched a free Survival Mode demo of Hellbound on Steam.
If all goes well, the full version of Hellbound will be released for the PC in 2019, and if Saibot manages to reach a $100,000 Stretch Goal, the developers plans to add a Campaign Mode to the game.
