Indie Fighter Coreupt Now Has a Playable Demo

If you've never heard of Coreupt, I don't blame you. Even some of the more established fighting games can pass under the radar of the general audience, what is there to say about the indie titles that don't have enormous marketing budgets?

Coreupt is quite an interesting case, however. The earliest traces of it date at least back to 2016 when aryoksini showed off the concept made for his client Jesse Wright, who is the director and creator of Coreupt.

That version of the game was scrapped, of course. The general sci-fi aesthethic remains, but the gameplay shifted towards a 1v1 fighting game. Unlikely most longtime projects of this kind, they didn't go completely silent, however. The developers have been posting regular updates about the state of the game, including plenty of footage.

Which allows us to see just how much the game actually changed year over year.

But now, it seems like the game is closing in on proper release, so developers have just unleashed a demo for everyone to try the game out.

I've poked around it myself and the game seems very techically competent. It ran fine on the Ultra preset, althrough the graphics and audio settings are woefully inadequate, since you can only choose the preset and I've found no audio settings.

When it comes to gameplay, surpriginly enough it resembles a mix between Melty Blood and Guilty Gear. You have the Light, Medium, Heavy, and Special buttons. You get your standard GG gatlings, but also MB reverse beat, with aerial combo structure that feels similar to Melty as well. Outside of that you'll also get to use Burst that much like the one in Guilty Gear can help you to push away opponents or get out of combos.

It feels smooth and responsive, and the addition of the dash macro will likely please anyone who's used to the luxuries of modern anime fighters.

That said, this derivative nature of both the gameplay and visuals makes it hard to say who exactly this is for. If you played anime fighters, you've already experienced everything that Coreupt has to offer, and the mostly bland sci-fi aesthethic is unlikely to pull people in.

Nontheless, indie fighting games deserve support, so if this looks even a little interesting to you, do make sure to check out the demo.