Creature In The Well is a new game from the indie developer Flight School Studio. The game was inspired by the legendary Pinball, with the weird mixture of our other favorite genres: hack-n-slash, dungeon crawling and action-puzzle.

You can watch some gameplay footage in the trailer below:

Creature in The Well adds Pinball to a dungeon exploration

Creature in The Well was released in Nintendo’s Nindies showcase alongside with some major shockers such as Cuphead and Cadence of Hyrule.

Cadence of Hyrule was a bomber in the Nindies Showcase Spring 2019
Cadence of Hyrule was a bomber in the Nindies Showcase Spring 2019

However, Creature in The Well still stood out as one of the most interesting games.

The game is no ordinary dungeon crawler where you strike the monsters with glamorous abilities. It took the inspiration from Pinball.

Creature in The Well features dungeon crawl with a bouncing ball
Creature in The Well features dungeon crawl with a bouncing ball

That sounds non-sense!

But you’ve read that right. You will explore through the dungeon, slay your enemies and solve the puzzles by smacking a projectile and let it ricochet into the objects.

Hit the balls of energy to make your way through the dungeon
Hit the balls of energy to make your way through the dungeon

Flight School Studio has described the game as a “top-down, pinball-inspired hack-and-slash dungeon crawler.”

You’ll play as a robot, on your way exploring through the old facilities and completing the mission of powering up the old generator. You will have to break through some areas filled with machinery as well as giant creatures.

You're on the mission to relaunch the generator under a facility
You're on the mission to relaunch the generator under a facility

Most doors in the facility are locked, so you’ll have to open them by providing them with powers. In order to do that, you will have to hit your energy ball, bounce it through various objects, gaining energy and get it to the door.

Hit the doors with the energy balls to open them.
Hit the doors with the energy balls to open them.

As you’ve finished the puzzles, you can move on to the next areas and continue making progress.

It’s very similar to Zelda in dungeon exploring aspect, except for the fact that you will beat the puzzles with a set of tennis instead of striking your enemies with spells.

But the game didn’t originally start that way

The Pinball-like gameplay was very creative, but it didn’t start with that inspiration. The creative director of Creature in The Well - Bohdon Sayre has clarified that they has started with Rocket League, Ballz and Zelda first, and then they've come up with Pinball-esque experience.

You're still hitting your way through, but it's more like hitting a hockey air ball
You're still hitting your way through, but it's more like hitting a hockey air ball

And then in the developing process, the authors started to lean to pinball bouncing mechanics, and then it finally became an interesting unique game that we’re experiencing. The developer has planned to release the game for Switch and PC through Steam this Summer.

There's a page of the game on Steam
There's a page of the game on Steam

If everything is on schedule, then we won’t have to wait long to find the nostalgia of the legendary Pinball while enjoying crawling through dungeons with many challenging puzzles waiting ahead!