Steamboat Showdown

Steamboat Showdown is an upcoming Indie boss rush action video game published by Red Cloud Games and releasing on July 7th, 2024.

Synopsis
Riding along a river, the Captain has to deal with a colorful cast of villains and rogues who see the Captain's steamboat and wants it for their own, soon having to deal with the mastermind, Pete.

Playable

 * The Captain - a playful rodent who runs a beautiful steamboat as he learns a plethora of villains want his steamboat as he decides to fight back and fight to keep his steamboat.

Bosses

 * Patrick - a muscular and aggressive cat who wants to take over the steamboat for himself, being the mastermind behind everything and the game's final boss fight.
 * First Phase - Patrick fights you on the Steamboat Willy as he has a simple yet tricky pool of attacks: a charge across the screen, throwing barrels at you, burping out toxin, jumping up and butt slamming down, sending henchmen to clog the screen, firing bullets out of a gun and throwing out mines that clutter the battlefield, yet can be destroyed with a projectile.
 * Second Phase - TBD
 * Final Phase - Patrick drinks a potion and grows to gigantic size as you now fight on three small platforms floating in the sky. Patrick can move either of his hands to the other side to smash you, move both at the same time to trap you between, move his hands down to a platform to squish you, summons enemies to fight, burps down toxin or dropping down drool that can cause damage.
 * Prickly the Pirate Pig - a no-nonsense pirate captain who wants to steal the Steamboat Willie to make himself insanely rich and feared, targeting the Captain due to this.
 * First Phase - TBD
 * Second Phase - TBD
 * Final Phase - TBD
 * Dr. Skeleton - a vile nasty giant skeleton who operates as a doctor as he uses a plethora of doctoral devices to attack and destroy the Captain.
 * First Phase - TBD
 * Second Phase - TBD
 * Final Phase - TBD
 * The Dastardly Frenchman - a comedically over-the-top Frenchman who pilots a massive train as he wants to destroy the Captain, using whatever he can to destroy him.
 * First Phase - TBD
 * Second Phase - TBD
 * Final Phase - TBD
 * The Third Wheeler - a large mouse who seeks to defeat the Captain to win Millie's love, fighting in a gigantic wheel, wanting to crush the Captain and destroy him.
 * First Phase - TBD
 * Second Phase - TBD
 * Final Phase - TBD
 * Mother Duck - an aggressive giant duck who is territorial of her property as she finds the Captain and believes he is trespassing, planning to attack and destroy him.
 * First Phase - TBD
 * Second Phase - TBD
 * Final Phase - TBD
 * TBD

Other

 * Millie - The Captain's girlfriend who decides to help the Captain out with facing the bosses, mainly by hosting the challenge stages and giving him advice on how to avoid the boss's attacks.
 * The Parrot - a goofy and annoying parrot who runs a shop that the Captain can visit to buy upgrades to help him more powerful in the coming bosses and run and gun stages.
 * The First Mate - one of the Captain's friends who is a monkey as he assumes control of the steamboat while the Captain fights the bosses, unless it is a steamboat fight.

Worlds

 * Calmtime Meadows
 * TBD
 * TBD
 * TBD
 * TBD
 * Patrick's Fortress
 * TBD

Gameplay
The game is a shoot em up boss rush game as you play as a Mickey Mouse expy called the Captain who has a jump, a double jump, a dash, a shoot button (where he fires out hard flying bubblegum) and a melee attack, which can be used to parry attacks as well. The game is split up into four worlds (with a fifth final world with less bosses and only one run and gun stage), with each of them having five boss fights, two run and gun levels and two challenge stages. Some boss fights change the gameplay from the run and gun style to a vertical shooter as you control the Captain in his steamboat, which can only fire upwards. The Captain starts with four health as he can buy upgrades to both increase his health, his damage and can even unlock healing items that drop during fights.

Trivia

 * Due to being an indie project using the public domain, the game only uses characters from the short, although the names are different due to the official names not being public domain.
 * The Steamboat Willie characters are colored in black and white as everyone else is in color.