Devotion devs next game Nine Sols has already smashed its crowdfunding goal

It’s not horror! It’s… Sekiro meets Hollow Knight?

The Taiwanese studio Red Candle Games have put upa crowdfunding pagefor their latest projectNine Sols, and it looks promising. It’s an action platformer with gorgeous hand-drawn animation work, and as Red Candle put it, it’s “a journey of Asian fantasy inspired bySekiro,Hollow KnightandKatana Zero.” That’s me sold. And clearly a lot of other people agree too, becauseNine Solsbroke its goal of three million Taiwanese dollars (that’s roughly £80,000)within 24 hours.

It looks to be quite the departure from the studio’s previous two games,DetentionandDevotion, both of which were firmly psychologicalhorror games. With Nine Sols, though, Red Candle Games are calling it “Taopunk” – “we had a clear goal of combining Taoism with cyberpunk, melding sci-fi elements with Eastern mythology.” Red Candle have also put out a trailer with a bit of gameplay to promote Nine Sols’ crowdfunding campaign. It’s got a banging electronic soundtrack, too. You can check that out below.

Red Candle says their reason behind crowdfunding is to get feedback directly from the people buying and playing their games. “Nine Sols is far larger in scale than anything Red Candle Games has produced in the past. It is therefore crucial that we find out what the market thinks of it during the development phase.” There’s a couple of interesting stretch goals for the campaign as well, like in-game cutscenes and hidden bosses.