Dungeon-crawling hackathon Conglomerate 451 will likely be hitting Steam early entry subsequent week, opening its maglev doorways to a world of dirty concrete and pink neon. Players will have the ability to hack themselves and the world round them in an try to beat the baddies with out sustaining ongoing accidents or agent demise, the latter of which is able to necessitate wheeling out a contemporary clone who might need the identical face however gained’t keep in mind any of the upgrades they acquired earlier than demise. A becoming manner of coping with new recruits, contemplating the style. Here’s a trailer displaying off among the combating and biomodding.
Do you ever simply hear trailer music that actually reminds you that E3 is lower than a month away? This isn’t an insult, it’s catchy, it simply additionally appears like a warm-up for the arcane ritual that’s listening to this kind of factor seventeen separate occasions whereas watching press conferences bleary-eyed at 2am.
Back when it was introduced, Alice O described it as “a bit Grimrock-meets-XCOM-in-cyberpunk-cosplay” to which I can solely add, sure, that. There’s grid-based fighty bits and strategy-o-planning sections, the latter after all being once you get to jam bits of laptop and the like into your squad to make them higher.
(0)451 is a quantity that seems in heaps and many games (particularly immersive sims) as a nod to a door code in Deus Ex. That was initially considered its personal nod to Ray Bradbury’s dystopic novel Fahrenheit 451, named for the temperature books burn at. Apparently that’s truly neither the reason it was utilized in Deus Ex nor the precise flashpoint of paper. But hey, it’s caught effectively sufficient. Maybe all these layers of misinformation are literally extra applicable to a cyberpunk setting anyway, being that every one the data should certainly be on microchips and the webnet reasonably than in old-timey books.
Conglomerate 451 will likely be hitting Steam Early Access on Thursday, May 23rd, with the complete launch deliberate for a while later within the yr.
