The subsequent sport from Dlala Studios, the developer behind the Battletoads reboot, has been revealed.
Murals is about for launch on PC in 2027, and is an motion journey sport set inside “familiar-ish fairy tales, fables, and different fictional worlds”.
Gamers journey between lands, serving to twisted variations of such characters as Rapunzel, the Little Mermaid and Hansel and Gretel.
The sport will even star UK comic Bob Mortimer, identified for being one half of the comedy double-act Reeves and Mortimer, in addition to Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing and his appearances in ensemble reveals like Would I Deceive You and Final One Laughing.
Mortimer will play Magic Dave, a scarecrow-like apothecary who provides the participant power-ups referred to as Eeries. The sport isn’t a roguelike, nevertheless: whereas the participant can select their Eeries and might reroll for various decisions, they do get to maintain the Eeries they earn for the remainder of the sport.
“We’ve been actually targeted on ensuring that the fight feels nice and provides gamers the liberty to experiment and discover their very own distinctive setups to battle our baddies”, Dlala Studios CEO and sport director mentioned in a press release.
“As cliché because it sounds, we’ve poured our hearts and souls into Murals, and I’m exceptionally pleased with what our staff has achieved. I can’t wait to listen to what individuals suppose as we present it off for the primary time at Gamescom! Until it’s dangerous. Then I’m simply going to stay my fingers in my ears and hum the theme music to Group.”
That is the primary authentic IP Dlala has labored on in 21 years. “Not solely are we profiting from the artistic freedom that entails, however we’re additionally publishing Murals ourselves,” head of publishing Marcus Purvis mentioned. “It’s all on our shoulders this time round, and we couldn’t be extra excited. Particularly me, because it actually is the rationale I’ve a job.”
Dlala’s final sport was Disney Illusion Island, which was launched on Switch in 2023 and got here to PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC in Might 2025.