Death by shifting It is the name of the latest game of the legendary developer Ron Gilbert. Revealed during the release of Gamescom 2025, Death by shifting It is currently confirmed only for PC.
Ron Gilbert is the American developer best known as the creator Monkey Island series. He started his career in Lucasfilm Games at the age of 80 and has more than 100 credits in his name, including work on Maniac Mansion, Total destruction: The main unforeseen event, Ollo at Sunny Valleyand Big castle. Last time, an industrial veteran designed, directed and wrote Return to Monkey IslandThe sixth installment in its favorite franchise, debuted in 2022.
Gilbert's latest project was introduced during the start of the Gamescom 2025 Live in the form of Death by shifting. Behind this whimsical name is a chaotic experience that combines elements of Roguelike and Bullet Hell. The nickname itself indicates the perspective of the game as Death by shifting They will have players who move with vertically scrolling environments. Retreat will not be a possibility, because the grim reaper will always be hot on the heels and try to end their run.
The presence of grim reaper reflects the wider topics of the game as Death by shifting It is set in purgatory, an unusual place that seems to be a merger of death interpretations and the posthumous life of various mythologies. The soul imprisoned there must pay 10,000 gold pieces to Ferryman, which are marked in the game as an “exaggerated” fee before they move. In order to increase this amount, they must perform several runs of the ever -changing world purgatory and set up a foundation for Death by shifting'With Roguelike Gameplay Loop.
Death by shifting It will include more playable characters, retro pixel artistic graphics and online rankings. Gilbert's stamp in the game materializes in the form of a funny dialogue on his face. While players are constantly invited to keep running up, alerting notification shows that this blindly does not have to guarantee safety, because the grim reaper can also appear from above.
Before the premiere of Gamescom 2025, Death by shifting He was teased by Gilbert himself at the end of 2024 when he said that his studio, a terrible Toybox, planned it in the coming months. While this start target has shifted clearly since then, the company's official website is currently mentioning Death by shifting as planned for late edition 2025. The upcoming name, which is to be published by Microprose Software, has so far been declared for PC.
