Lovish Is A New 8-Bit-Inspired Action Adventure Coming To Steam Early Next Year

The Japanese indie publisher Dangen Entertainment and developer LABS Works have just announced a new 8-bit-inspired action adventure called Lovish, which will be released for PC (via Steam) next year.

The adorable retro-style game is the second collaboration between LABS Works’ founder Matt Kap and DANGEN Entertainment, following 2021’s Astalon: Tears of the Earth, and is focused on the love-struck Sir Solomon on a quest to save his beloved from the Devil Lord’s castle. It features some truly gorgeous pixel art and character designs as well as a 20+ chiptune soundtrack composed by Kap, which calls to mind the classic NES games like Mega Man and Castlevania, as well as “neo-retro” titles like Shovel Knight.

In the game, players will embark on an epic adventure across 50+ rooms as Solomon, which are presented as platforming stages, collecting various weapons and items to improve their odds of survival. Unlike other platformers of this nature, though, every so often players will occasionally encounter a brief randomized event to add a little hilarity to proceedings, from escaping boulders to being incinerated or getting hit with an unexpected income tax notice.