How do you observe up a nordic noir thriller, adopted by an anti-fascist pop-punk street journey? With a sport about mountaineering by way of a post-apocalyptic desert and dodging sunburn within the shadow of your large war-bot buddy, in fact. Hello Sunshine is the following sport from Norwegian indie outfit Red Thread Games (led by Longest Journey and Dreamfall director Ragnar Tørnquist) and appears to be an curiously completely different tackle the survival sandbox.
Looking vaguely related (for those who squint a bit) to different linear journey survival video games like Raft or Voidtrain, Hello Sunshine has you following an enormous robotic because it trudges by way of the desert by day, and shuts all the way down to recharge and restore at evening, with the weather being a direct risk to life and limb. Being caught immediately within the desert solar isn’t good in your well being, forcing you to remain within the shadow of the upgradeable and customizable mech, after which huddling nearer to the sun-baked bot for heat when dusk comes.
The sport is billed as a “survival thriller” too, seemingly asking gamers to place collectively the puzzle items explaining simply how the world grew to become a barren wreck stuffed with company mega-weapons. Now, maybe I’m a bit jaded, however I’m placing my cash on ‘capitalism’.
Given Red Thread’s earlier video games leaning extra on the journey facet of issues, I’d assume that the sport isn’t going to have you ever scurrying round for water each two minutes like some survival video games. I do know I’d relatively it depart me cheap time to discover, scavenge and work out all that plot stuff, however that’s only a hunch.
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One factor that’s confirmed is that the sport is nearly definitely going to tug on the heartstrings, with the announcement mentioning that whereas at first the colossus largely ignores your presence, “over time, your bond strengthens”, which implies that horrible issues are undoubtedly going to occur to your robotic pal. I’ve seen a Pixar film; I understand how this goes!
And there might be threats, because the announcement mentions hostile drones and large mecha-crab monsters roaming the wastes, but additionally pleasant drones that you may restore and program to assist out in your scavenging runs.
What catches my eye probably the most is the point out of a co-op mode. While the textual content is irritatingly obscure, discuss of an opportunity to ‘expertise the journey from completely different views’ and a ‘peculiar partnership’ means that the second participant might be taking up the position of the large robotic, doubtlessly making for a really completely different expertise than singleplayer. Pure hypothesis on my half, however I’d be down for a deeply uneven co-op story.
There’s no launch date but for Hello Sunshine, past a obscure ‘coming quickly’, however you may wishlist the sport on Steam now
