I was a little exasperated that Nolla Games doesn't seem to be doing DLC or a Noita 2 and despite them giving multiple talks on how the game works, there doesn't appear to be anyone making games in a similar genre.
My ideal would be something that had fancier lighting than Noita, more like Starbound, with high-resolution graphics (even if the voxels are low-res, could have them join with neighboring ones in fancy ways), without the 60 FPS cap of the Noita physics engine, and it'd be neat if it could gain a bunch of performance from using the GPU. It'd also be nice to make it harder to get stuck on stray pixels, juice up the graphics a bit, and maybe make the liquid simulation more-plausible.
Lo and behold, when taking yet another search, today I finally ran into a presently-unnamed game by Meatbag Games. They're clearly trying to make a Noita spiritual successor, but using the GPU to accelerate the game and with a sci-fi theme. There's virtually nothing they have up about it aside from a few blog posts and videos, but from the "current state of the game" videos, I think it hits most of my technical wants for a new Noita:
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It's clearly high-resolution graphics-wise.
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It looks to me like the lower-resolution voxels are being processed to look pretty.
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They explicitly say on their blog that their engine is using the GPU.
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The liquid simulation looks much snazzier.
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It looks like there are being shadows cast by terrain in the demo video with all the fire.
I have no idea whether they'll improve on the "getting stuck on stray pixels" or whether the physics can run at over 60 FPS, but I have to say that everything else there looks just great.
I've no affiliation with them, just had never seen this before, thought that it looked cool, and it doesn't look like they're publicizing the thing much yet.
All that being said, the thing is clearly in an early state, and the game may never ultimately come out or it could be just less fun to play, miss gameplay magic that Noita did so well. But...I'm really hoping.
Interesting that they also appear to be Finnish, like Nolla Games.