Brokensides just got announced — a psychological horror beat 'em up from juicce, the developer behind FUNKYHEART. You play as a violent sea bunny recently released from prison after committing a Cardinal Crime, and the game is exactly as strange as that sounds.
The visual style mashes oldschool wireframe 3D, improperly rendered models with odd color palettes, and ASCII art into a desolate, surreal world. It's populated by 2D characters of varying existences and glass-bodied enemies that you grapple, dropkick, and suplex until they shatter into chunky crystalline pieces. The Steam page also promises you can pose and sit wherever you like — even if you don't deserve it. Combat looks closest to Absolver in feel, though with a harder streetbrawling edge.
Juicce has form for this kind of deliberately off-kilter aesthetic — FUNKYHEART leaned into the same surreal, lo-fi weirdness, so Brokensides feels like a natural next step rather than a genre experiment gone sideways. The beat 'em up genre doesn't get a lot of horror crossovers, which makes this one stand out even at the announcement stage.
There's only one trailer so far and no release date, window, or year attached. If the vibe appeals, the Steam wishlist is open now.
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