Stonefly, a mech adventure game from Flight School Studios, is coming to Nintendo Switch on June 1.
The game stars Annika Stonefly, an inventor who loses her father s precious mech and has to explore the world around her to find it. The gameplay consists of seeking out resources to build mechs, exploring new regions, and experiencing the narrative of Annika s struggle. You can read more about Stonefly from our preview and if you re curious for more information, the developer is releasing Stonefly Snapshot videos, beginning with the video below.
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by Neal Ronaghan - February 26, 2021, 10:00 am EST
The developers of Creature in the Well are bringing a stylish and chill mech adventure game to Switch this summer.
I first heard about Stonefly the next game from Creature in the Well developer Flight School Studios in a summary paragraph inviting me to check out a guided preview of the game on Discord. It was described there as “a tranquil mech action-adventure game” and from that moment, I was incredibly interested in seeing more about what Stonefly was. It also helps that Creature in the Well was an incredibly neat game.
Then I saw what Stonefly actually is and well, I’m still on board. You control Annika Stonefly, an inventor from a small town who takes her dad’s prized mech for a joyride, loses it, and then must go on an adventure to find the family heirloom. Most of the gameplay takes place in an isometric perspective among leaves and branches as Annika pilots a bug-like mech. You’re generally looking for resou
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Have you ever wanted to fly a tiny insect mech from leaf to leaf, blow bugs away, and then use your collected resources to give said mech a sick paint job? What do you mean “it’s never crossed your mind”?Well, prepare to have your imaginings resoundingly changed by Stonefly.
This is a game where your insectoid mech can be painted in more shades that the human eye can discern, blowing insects away by flapping your wings to sending them spiralling off the leaf you’re set on inhabiting, and where you’ll spend the majority of your time flying and floating, barely putting a dainty mech leg on the ground. It’s probably a good thing too, as those insects seem eager to eat everything in sight, yourself included.