As influential because the STALKER collection has been, Big Robot’s The Signal From Tölva is without doubt one of the few shooters to correctly replicate its mix of emergent open-world wandering and sci-fi spookiness. Tölva was admittedly just a little on the brief facet, however Big Robot are beneficiant kinds, and are nearly able to roll out a significant free growth for the sport.
Alice took a look at the Polar Regions expansion a while back, which guarantees extra mysteries, laser-fights and exploration in new and colder climes, however now we’ve acquired a goodly chunk of gameplay footage, together with guarantees from Big Robot that it’s very almost able to be rolled out. Within, lasers glittering throughout ice, and many extra robots doing robotic issues.
It solely stands to cause that robots would gravitate in the direction of the colder areas of a planet. While that snow would possibly current some issues, you possibly can’t argue with the free cooling – it’s an overclocker’s paradise! For probably the most half, the growth seems to be like extra of the identical, though when a lot of Tölva’s enchantment lies in its meandering digital tourism (with laser weapons), extra ruins, extra hillsides and extra enemy bases to shoot up is simply what the engineer ordered.
The Polar Region growth might be completely free, and guarantees a further few hours of gathering artifacts, making an attempt to scan weirdo space-ghosts (though most likely not from coast to coast), exploring anomaly-laden ruins and different such low-key robotic journey stuff. Your handler again aboard your ship seems to be to have a good quantity to say about this new atmosphere too, and I need to admit that I acquired a smirk out of describing a wandering ‘survey cow’ robotic as being the centerpiece of a pastoral scene.
The Signal From Tölva is round £15//$20 on Steam, Itch, GOG, and the Humble Store. If I had been a betting man, I’d wager that the Polar Regions expansions would hit the Steam model first, adopted by Itch second and GOG third.
Disclosure: In the Before Times, earlier than I began cluttering up your information feeds, legend tells that one ‘Jim Rossignol’ co-founded this pretty web site. He apparently acquired bored and determined to go away to make video games about robots and area ghosts as a substitute, The Signal From Tölva being considered one of them. Beyond that, I don’t know a lot about him.
