3D adventure game Molly Medusa: Queen of Spit on the way to Switch

Niklas Hallin, the developer behind Yono and the Celestial Elephants as well as Belladonna, is teaming up with the music duo Burning Planet on Molly Medusa: Queen of Spit. The game is set to appear on Switch in Spring 2023.

Molly Medusa: Queen of Spit is “a gravity-bending 3D adventure where everyone turns to stone.” Read more about the game in the following overview:

Poor Molly! A sculptor’s apprentice cursed into a snake-haired Medusa – and so, every living thing she goes near instantly turns into a stone statue. Every living thing! Enemies and friends, bosses and shopkeepers, monsters and allies, even animals and small insects, they all turn to stone.

Molly’s quest takes her through a series of mystical temples, as she struggles with loneliness and alienation. Inside these temples gravity is “local”. Molly’s “down” is calculated from the surface she’s currently standing on, which means she can easily walk up walls, or upside down in the ceiling. This allows the level design to twist in on itself, and curl into labyrinths that are physically impossible. Petrified enemies accompany gravity puzzles and non-euclidean architecture, in M. C. Escher scavenger hunts.

Hallin said of today’s announcement: “I’m a solo game developer from Sweden. In 2017 I released Yono and the Celestial Elephants, a Zelda-like adventure about a young and naive elephant god. The time has finally come for my next big game, Molly Medusa: Queen of Spit, and this time we’re making full use of 3D space!”

A couple of teasers can be found below.