Developer Zenovia made the rounds last year with its action game Steel Assault, featuring lovely 2D pixel art and frenetic 2D gameplay. The studio will be following its past opus with yet another 2D title, though with a more Devil May Cry character action slant.

Zenovia has announced Neon Inferno, which is a mix between 2D run-and-gun and gallery-shooter set in New York City of the future. The future of 2055 to be exact. Here’s the plot synopsis:

“Three decades from now, New York City is at war with itself. A war with no battlefield: criminal syndicates control four of its five boroughs, fighting each other and the corrupt New York Police Department in a vicious struggle for supremacy. Into this dystopia steps a fledgling crime family trying to secure their place, striving for power just as everyone else. You are their deadliest weapon.

As an assassin, your missions will take you through every area of this hyper-metropolitan sprawl: from the impoverished battle-torn slums of the Bronx, where the police and the gangs wage vicious war covering entire neighborhoods in flame, to the walled neon gardens of Inner Manhattan, where the upper-class and the lawmakers idle away their time enjoying the fruits of high culture, blissfully shielded from the chaos and the agony of the outside world—for now.”

Neon Inferno features the aforementioned run-and-gun gameplay hybrid that’s part Contra and part Wild Guns, with the latter mechanic being that you shoot enemies in the background while you’re in the foreground. Think Sunset Riders but in 2055 New York. The game’s art style is channeling a 32-bit style aesthetic backed with a lovely and fitting soundtrack. It also sports two-player co-op action and an Arcade mode where you have to clear the game using one credit. Hardcore!

Neon Inferno will be out for PC via Steam in 2025. No other platforms have been announced for the upcoming title.