Concursion seamlessly blends five gaming genres together

Concursion takes platforming, space combat, hack-and-slash action, aerial exploration, and Pac-Man-style mazes and blends them all together to make a single gaming experience. They all mix together a lot more seamlessly than you might think. Check out the trailer and see for yourself.

Ozzie Mejia

January 16, 2014 11:00 AM

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If you're an indie studio, one of the first questions to think about before venturing out to create a game is what kind of game should it be? For Puuba, the answer is to stick five different genres in a blender and revel in the chaos that results. The indie dev released a new trailer today for its puree of gaming goodness called Concursion.

Concursion simultaneously offers platforming, space combat, hack-and-slash action, aerial exploration, and Pac-Man-like mazes. The unnamed main character will switch between each gameplay style at a moment's notice by jumping into various rifts placed in each level. All of these gaming elements feature their own distinct art style and are blended together in a shockingly seamless fashion.

It's one of those ideas you need to see to believe, so check out the trailer below. Concursion is set to hit PC and Mac later this year.

Ozzie Mejia

Senior Editor

Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?