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Ectolibrium is a 2.5d platformer unlike any on the market. You are a creature yanked from another dimension and dropped into an industrial wasteland full of strange lifeforms. You leap and cling to surfaces and drink ectoplasm to fly through the air. You explore and interact with unique characters. You sprout alien plants and amass followers to sabotage force fields in your path. You trigger floods of ectoplasm, transforming the dead environment into a vibrant and flourishing alien ocean. We want our gameworld to feel truly weird, with visuals drawing off tide-pools, deep sea life and and microorganisms. Only trace amounts of a more familiar world remain in this setting, buried beneath years of accumulated strangeness -- and the backstory gradually reveals how the world came to be this way.

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This week I show an early look at the Outlier's Grotto, a persistent garden hub-space which the player can gradually expand, and use to grow gameplay-modifications.

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This week I show an early look at the Outlier's Grotto, a persistent garden hub-space which the player can gradually expand, and use to grow gameplay-modifications.

The player is rewarded with seeds and symbiote larvae while playing the game's platforming sections. They can then plant these lifeforms in the grotto, to later harvest gameplay-modifying symbiotes.

This feature is currently in EARLY development, and will see many improvements before its inclusion in the Steam Early Access release.

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