These games are very good and very similar.

NiGHTS into Dreams came out in 1996 and it’s remembered for being a pioneer of 3D graphics on the SEGA Saturn. It’s a game about flowing and flying through the air, boosting, and looping.

HASTE: Broken Worlds feels like a modernized NiGHTS in terms of its gameplay. NiGHTS, for its 3D graphics, was a 2D platformer with a side-scrolling view. You’d fly from left to right, collect energy, and rack up as high of a score that you can in the set amount of time.

HASTE is a third-person front perspective. You sprint and fly forward, dodge obstacles, collect energy crystals, and reach the end as fast as possible. High scores are just an after thought. HASTE is also has roguelite elements with a randomized level layout, a shop, healing station, and more.

Everyone keeps saying HASTE is a successor to Sonic, but it plays nothing like Sonic. HASTE doesn’t have combat, lock-ons, climbing, rail grinding, or spin dashing. In Haste you’re always moving forward.

haste is like its own new game ngl

And that’s fair. I could go on and on about how this is similar to NiGHTS, but it’s different enough that it could be its own thing.

So many indie games come out that are just homages to old classics. Ultrakill is just Quake. Hollow Knight is just Metroid. Undertale is just Earthbound. So it’s always really cool when an indie studio tries something completely new.

please don’t say that about my baby ultrakill

I don’t mean to throw shade at it because it’s a lot of fun. I liked the demo.

i know lol i’m js jonklin wichya

O I know what nights is
I was interested in that when I was younger

It’s fun and it’s a decently short length. 5.6 hours was enough to complete the story and S-rank every level.

Unfortunately, SEGA delisted it from Steam back in November.