Dead by Daylight Developer Is Working on a New Serious Sam Game, Published by Devolver

During today's Xbox Partner Showcase, Devolver Digital showed up to uncover a marque caller Serious Sam game. But it's not being made by the accustomed developer, Croteam. Instead, Dead by Daylight dev Behaviour Interactive is wandering into the blast portion with Serious Sam: Shatterverse.

Serious Sam: Shatterverse is simply a caller co-op FPS wherever teams of 5 players, playing arsenic a radical of Sams from alternate dimensions, question crossed shifting universes to repair the "Shatterverse". In a property merchandise shared with IGN, I peculiarly enjoyed this enactment sharing 1 of the game's features: "Wield a big, loud, anserine and frankly irresponsible arsenal of weapons, mixing classical Serious Sam guns and all-new toys plucked from the Shatterverse." Yeah, that sounds similar Serious Sam!

Here are the remainder of the features, per the release:

• High adrenaline run-and-gun FPS combat with large battlefields, non-stop pressure, a batch of backpedaling and perfectly timed one-liners erstwhile everything’s connected fire
• Leans into Serious Sam’s bequest and pushes it guardant with procedurally shifted runs crossed hand-crafted arenas acceptable successful antecedently unexplored worlds
• Navigate unstable anomalies, hidden portals and high-risk opportunities that tin supercharge a tally – oregon extremity it instantly
• Push guardant for greater rewards, unlock almighty modifiers, and instrumentality vantage of upgrades that permanently grow your possibilities
• Face disconnected against monolithic hordes of enemies including classical Serious Sam foes and caller monsters nether Mental’s control, each begging to beryllium gibbed

No merchandise day conscionable yet, but it's planned for motorboat aboriginal this twelvemonth connected Xbox Series, PS5, and PC.

This is hardly the archetypal clip Serious Sam has been handed disconnected to idiosyncratic else. While the main bid has historically ever been helmed by Croteam, a fig of spinoffs person launched implicit the years by a assortment of different studios. The astir caller was Serious Sam: Tormental successful 2022, a twin-stick rogue-lite developed by Gungrounds for PC that lone received mixed reviews. Behaviour, meanwhile, has a long, agelong past of taking connected different companies' IPs and making palmy spin-offs, assisting connected games similar Fallout Shelter and the bid Silent Hill: Ascension. They also, notably, already person a highly palmy co-op crippled successful Dead by Daylight.

“Our main extremity was to respect Serious Sam's affluent bequest portion presenting it successful a fresh, modern mode dissimilar thing seen earlier successful the series,” said Behaviour Interactive’s Nic Duchesne. “Working with Devolver has been an incredible, enriching acquisition for our team. The folks determination are existent renegades of the video crippled publishing world: they ever enactment the crippled archetypal and aren’t acrophobic to carve their ain path.”

You tin drawback up connected everything announced astatine today's Xbox Partner Showcase close here.

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