Inspired by Exile?

[Thief and Friar]

This game seems to resemble Exile on the Amiga and C64, except more poorly realised.
Was it inspired by that classic, by chance?

[Miggo]

Years ago, there was plenty of games done by Finnish people with similar terrain destruction+pixel water. People who are making Noita are also Finnish. Suddenly such of games disappeared for some reason.

For example Wings:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK82B3BjhaA

German Clonk-game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scp7ErrympA

[Andy001z]

Originally posted by Thief and Friar:

This game seems to resemble Exile on the Amiga and C64, except more poorly realised.
Was it inspired by that classic, by chance?

Certainly made me think of EXILE the controls and game play is very much the same. Not complaining really nicely done.

[Vargas78]

It reminded me of exile too, but also the flood by bullfrog with it's water flooding the level.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EbGjm_x808&t=135s&ab_channel=WorldofLongplays

[45]

given the engine name "falling everything" i assume its based on the falling sands games which were prevalent in the flash era: https://boredhumans.com/falling_sand.php

And heres an interview proving it just from a quick search engine scan (as well as other inspirations):
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/from-falling-sand-to-falling-everything-the-simulation-games-that-inspired-noita

The initial reveal trailer immedaitely made me think of those as if someone took that concept and made a real game out of it somehow, its great as a roguelike even since the games core premise is experimentation. I finally picked it up on sale and I'm loving every second of it.

[Serious Secare]

♥♥♥♥ I thought they were inspired by Lemmings

[seph.bane]

Originally posted by Serious Secare:

♥♥♥♥ I thought they were inspired by Lemmings

Now I will never be able to un-see it.

[Curved Vacuum]

I actually started on an Exile mod for Noita a while back as I also thought the same thing - based on the original BBC Micro version. So far it has imps (based on Hurtta) and Triax (based on the Hiisi grenadier).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f7D9zuI6Bc