Aura of Worlds arrives on Switch next week, new trailer

Aura of World, which was announced for Switch earlier in the year, secured a release date. It’s been confirmed that the game is slated for September 24, 2024.

Aura of Worlds was first made known for Switch in March. At the time, it had a Q2 2024 launch window – so there was a slight delay.

Here’s an overview of the game:

A roguelite where improvisation and know-how surpass stats, Aura of Worlds gives you the freedom to fight, explore, and fully interact with your environment. Demanding sharp wit and precise reflexes, the game encourages creativity: Should you just loot the cursed treasure chest (like it goads you to) or wield it as a weapon? Follow the enemy-laden path ahead, or make your own? Blink, bounce, grapple or fly across lava pits or just blow them up in a glorious spray of embers? In Aura of Worlds, ingenuity and craziness often work to your advantage!

Featuring pixel-perfect visuals and an earworm-worthy chiptune soundtrack, Aura of Worlds will have you traverse ever-changing death labyrinths – turning adversity into advantage. Escape flooding passages, outrun toxic pollen, and face off against gargantuan bosses. Do you go on defense with a spear and energy shield … or swing into the fray with a boomerang, grappling hook, and a grin? The choices – unlike your health potions – are endless.

Key Features

• Wide Array of Skills: Grab, throw, hack, light, parkour, terraform, and warp time itself! Challenging Traps, Many Solutions: Throw an enemy into a laser field, blink through it – or blow up the power conduit; put your creativity to the test!
• Endless Levels: With 100+ unique enemies and traps and over 14 randomized level themes, you can navigate mine-filled tidal corridors, rising lava, carnivorous plant-lined caverns, and more. Thrilling Boss Fights: Outwit and outmaneuver powerful guardians at the end of each world.
• One Object, Multiple Possibilities: With multi-use objects, a humble lantern can be grabbed, carried for light, shot or thrown as a Molotov cocktail.
• Customize Your Gameplay: Choose from a multitude of weapons, items, abilities, pets, modifiers, upgrades, and more.
• Always evolving: Progress between runs with a wide array of optional unlocks including upgrades, items, character backgrounds, pets and world shortcuts.
• Rescue missions: Locate friends in need of a helping hand!
• Gorgeous Pixel Art: Hand-crafted pixel art and animations by Rex Smeal, Han Cheon, T-Dog eXtreme, Danika Clark, and August Cartland.
• Immersive Sound: Experience a memorable score and sound effects from the prolific Mat Dwyer and Amanda J. Lim.

Take a look at a new trailer for Aura of Worlds below.

Launch Trailer

Those interested in the game will be able to grab it from the eShop for $14.99. Check out our other coverage here.