Outcasters in action.

Stadia’s Outcasters looks like a next-generation .io-style shooter

Developer Splash Damage revealed Outcasters today as part of Google’s Stadia Connect video event. Outcasters is an online multiplayer battler with a twist — literally. This top-down competitive shooter doesn’t have players firing in predictable, straight lines. Instead, the designers built Outcasters around the idea of a twisty curve shot where an enemy’s attack can hit you even when you’re hiding behind cover. But Splash Damage is also putting a lot of emphasis on ensuring the action is simple to understand and visually appealing, which are important characteristics for a game that anyone can begin playing instantly in a browser window.

Outcasters is almost like a next-generation .io-style game — like slither.io or agar.io. That might sound dismissive or insulting to Splash Damage, but I don’t mean it that way. Many .io games are massively popular with hundreds of thousands of players. And Stadia’s cloud-streaming tech has the potential to reach similar audiences but with more modern visuals.

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