Raw Fury is publishing the monster-fusing RPG, and it’ll be on Xbox Game Pass
It’s nice to check back in on a promising PC-based indie game only to find out that it’s coming to more platforms, and it’s been picked up by a publisher, too. In this case, I’m talking aboutCassette Beasts, a monster-battling RPG in the vein ofPokémonthatgrabbed our attentionlast year with a kinda funky fusion system. It even had anin-browser demo.
I haven’t given the game much thought since then, but the team at Bytten Studio has been making moves. Raw Fury is going to publishCassette Beasts— it’s coming to PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S, with a no-brainer inclusion into Xbox Game Pass on PC and consoles. A release date hasn’t been announced yet.
The new “announcement” trailer highlights the game’s turn-based battles, bonds, fusions, and open-world traversal. I’m curious about that skeletal creature with a threatening aura at the 1:03 mark — most ofCasette Beastsuses a modernized pixel-art look outside of illustrated character portraits, but this creature has a different art style that seems to clash in a purposeful way. What can I say, I like reading into split-second trailer edits.
I feel like a “Pokémon-esque PC game” isn’t necessarily the sell it used to be. At the same time, I thinkCassette Beastsis one of the more interesting examples, and there’s also no denying that a certain part of the audience isn’t thrilled with the at times frustratingly set-in-its-ways series. It also helps that these developers, Jay Baylis and Tom Coxon, contributed toprojects likeStardew Valley,Wargroove, andStarboundat Chucklefish.
“[Raw Fury] gets what we’re trying to achieve with the project,” the team said in a press statement. “Cassette Beaststruly feels like a collaboration between us and them — it really wouldn’t have been able to grow into what it is now without Raw Fury backing us.”
To dig in a little more, I’ll point you to theofficial site— the developers have been posting some fairly detailed behind-the-scenes blogs, and you may check out creatures likeNevermort, a poison-type bird;Artillerex, a turret-bellied dino; andMascotoy, a plastic-type beast that’s now “closer to a shambling corpse” than a “character costume.”
