{"id":116916,"date":"2020-08-18T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/08\/indie_puzzle-platformer_evergate_surprise_drops_on_switch_today"},"modified":"2020-08-18T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T17:30:00","slug":"indie-puzzle-platformer-evergate-surprise-drops-on-switch-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/18\/indie-puzzle-platformer-evergate-surprise-drops-on-switch-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Indie Puzzle-Platformer Evergate Surprise Drops On Switch Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2555995d824b8\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2555995d824b8\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2555995d824b8\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\"><\/aside>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/08\/watch_nintendo_indie_world_showcase_august_2020_-_live\">Nintendo Indie World Showcase<\/a> presentation broadcast earlier featured a cluster of indie games that are launching later today, and one of them is enchanting puzzle-platformer <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/evergate\">Evergate<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Coming from Boston-based Stone Lantern Games, Evergate is a deeply personal adventure that has players exploring the afterlife as Ki, a childlike soul revisiting areas of the world that she once inhabited. Using crystals you find around the environment, a gameplay mechanic known as the Soulflame fundamental to navigating the world by forming platforms, boosting, teleporting and generally zipping around in acrobatic fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the trailer above for a better look at the Soulflame mechanic in action, or alternatively the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/2BogOkvVIj8?t=1043\">timestamped segment from the presentation itself<\/a> with messages from members of the dev team. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/08\/feature_evergate_developer_takes_us_behind_the_scenes_of_the_upcoming_puzzle-platform_adventure\">We also recently spoke to the team<\/a> at Stone Lantern about the game and the inspiration behind it; when we asked about a potential release date, they were understandably cagey with their response &#8211; and now we know why!<\/p>\n<p>Evergate is available on the Switch eShop now for $16.99 \/ \u00a314.44, a 15% launch discount down from $19.99 \/ \u00a316.99.<\/p>\n<p><em>Will you be giving the Soulflame a whirl later on? Let us know if your puzzle-platforming flame burns for this one below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nintendo Indie World Showcase presentation broadcast earlier featured a cluster of indie games that are launching later today, and one of them is enchanting puzzle-platformer Evergate. Coming from Boston-based Stone Lantern Games, Evergate is a deeply personal adventure that has players exploring the afterlife as Ki, a childlike soul revisiting areas of the world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}