Feed IT Souls Is A Game Boy Metroidvania That Pokes Fun At Annoying “Techno-Feudalists”

Prolific Game Boy developer Gumpy Function (AKA Tom Lockwood, one of many gifted individuals behind the wonderful Grimace’s Birthday) has simply introduced the discharge of Feed IT Souls: Department of Martian Efficiency Edition, a Metroidvania for the Game Boy Color which serves as a remake of his GB Compo 23 game jam effort.

Described by its creator as a title which satirises Elon Musk and the “techno-feudalists of the corporate world”, the sport’s origin was impressed by Musk’s buy of the social media platform Twitter again in 2023.

“You are the offspring of IT, a bio-technological monstrosity after only one thing – delicious souls,” reads the sport’s itch.io page. “Seek out and retrieve souls to feed your master. His power is your power. Every soul retrieved will enhance your mobility as you explore your surroundings.”

Costing just $5 and playable on unique GBC {hardware} or through emulation, Feed IT Souls: DOME Edition showcases new areas, new enemies, reworked art work, in-game achievements, an overhauled recreation engine and a brand new Key Performance Indicator mode that “enables a classic life system for extra challenge”.

Furthermore, you additionally get a digital handbook “in the style of classic GBC manuals from the late 1990s and 2000s.”

The developer has additionally confirmed that the sport is coming to Playtiles Season 1 subsequent week. Playtiles, in case you were not conscious, is a brand new working system for smartphones that provides tactile buttons to your gadget’s touchscreen through a detachable, silicon-based “tile”.

Lockwood has additionally revealed that he’s now not publishing his video games through ModRetro, the corporate based by Palmer Luckey, which is behind the FPGA-based Chromatic and M64 consoles.