Gather the spirits of fallen heroes, morph between them and fight for your life!

Morph between spirit forms and crush hordes of evil minions! The Lords of Death have returned and with the green, fertile lands of the overworld under siege it’s up to you to take the fight beneath the earth. Liberate dungeons, free the spirits of fallen heroes and turn their powers against Death himself!

A strategic dungeon crawler that rewards character switching, elemental counters and crowd control, MetaMorph challenges you to best a series of increasingly difficult dungeons filled with fire imps, vengeful wisps and hulking golems. To survive you must solve the ‘puzzle’ of each encounter. Choose which spirit forms to take into battle and morph between them at will to counter enemies of all shapes and sizes. Plan your attack and react on the fly as you combine strategy with twitch skills to decimate opponents and reclaim your land from the Lords of Death.

Creators of medieval siege ‘em up Stronghold, Firefly Studios has just released MetaMorph: Dungeon Creatures, a thinking man’s dungeon crawler on Steam Early Access.

The third original IP and genre to be tackled by the British developer since the studio’s founding in 1999, the game will be developed with input from Firefly’s existing community and new players on Early Access.

“We are really pleased to finally release our crazy dungeon crawler out onto the ‘surface’. This is after all an idea we have wanted to follow for a long time now, a dungeon game that values tactics alongside action” said Simon Bradbury, Co-Founder of Firefly Studios and designer of classic strategy games Caesar and Lords of the Realm. “Our Early Access release is about enshrining the idea of the game, it is far from the end with loads of free content and dungeon character still to come! Hopefully we can find a likeminded community during Early Access that will come with us on our journey as we beat our monster into shape.”

During Early Access the roster of playable characters, boss fights, enemy types and abilities will be expanded to give players new options when tackling each dungeon. As the game grows team composition and skill loadouts will become increasingly important, with each dungeon containing its own puzzling mix of brutal traps and hellish enemies. Players will die repeatedly as they attempt to solve the puzzle of each encounter, selecting the ideal combination of heroes and skills to counter enemies of unique elemental types and attack patterns. Players will need to customise their loadouts, switch between heroes at the most opportune moment, manage cooldowns and combine attacks to survive!

Key Features:

• MORPH between powerful spirit forms, shapeshifting to counter and crush enemy hordes.
• MASTER tactical combat in an adventure that rewards strategic choices over button mashing.
• EXPLORE hostile dungeons infested with demons, grotesque experiments and vengeful spirits.
• CUSTOMISE your heroes’ ability loadouts and team composition before braving each hellish lair.
• BANISH Death’s horde to the nether realm with each hero’s unique powers and attributes.

MetaMorph: Dungeon Creatures is the creation of 'Firefly Labs', a new internal team at Firefly Studios responsible for prototyping new IPs and game concepts outside the company's traditional expertise in strategy-simulation. While the core Firefly team will continue to work on Stronghold titles including Stronghold Kingdoms mobile, Stronghold 2: Steam Edition and a new mainline Stronghold title for PC, the Labs team will develop MetaMorph for release later this year on Early Access.