Shellbound cover

Shellbound

First release
2028 · Date to be confirmed
Engine
Unity 6
Genres
Indie, Adventure · Mystery, Action, Fantasy

Shellbound is a hand-drawn 2D Metroidvania where life can only exist on a gigantic snail. Explore a vibrant world, fight bizarre flora and fauna and discover civilizations fueled by the powerful snail mucus. It is the key to your natural role: Devour everything so life itself continues to exist.

Also known as Shellbound - A Mucus Tale

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Details

Storyline, release dates, time to beat, age ratings, modes, links, keywords

Storyline
You explore a living world and interact with its bizarre biology, fight and control enemies for platforming, puzzles and combat, and follow a dark, compelling narrative about the end of the colossal Snail’s life cycle and your role in it as a parasite.Read more

You explore a living world and interact with its bizarre biology, fight and control enemies for platforming, puzzles and combat, and follow a dark, compelling narrative about the end of the colossal Snail’s life cycle and your role in it as a parasite.

Release dates
PC (Microsoft Windows)
2028 · Date to be confirmed
Mac
2028 · Date to be confirmed
Game modes
Single player
Perspective
Side view
Keywords
metroidvania, explorable world, hand-drawn

How it plays

Languages

  • Englishinterface, subtitles
  • Deutschinterface, subtitles
IGDB · recorded 4 Nov 2026
Also in 6 other languages

Language data: IGDB · recorded 4 Nov 2026