After a complete new technology of Infinity Engine-inspired RPGs (ala Pillars of Eternity), we’re acquainted sufficient with the idea of real-time-with-pause fight, however upcoming tactical RPG Iron Danger seems to be to go one step additional… or again, relying on the way you take a look at it. How does the choice to roll again time and undo all of your errors sound? Welcome to Savescumming: The Game.
Set in a world based mostly on Finnish mythology (particularly the 19th century epic, Kalevala), Iron Danger primarily places you within the footwear of Kipuna, an everyday younger girl. Somehow, she’s gone and stumbled upon an historical energy which supplies her management over time and dying itself, as you do, and understandably there are forces on the market who’d fairly wish to have that. Cue a magical cat-and-mouse journey throughout the land, with you virtually at all times outnumbered, however by no means brief on time. Here’s some early (and clearly unoptimised) pre-alpha gameplay footage:
Kipuna isn’t completely alone on her journey – the trailer exhibits her partnering up with an unlimited axeman, and there’s a 3rd playable character within the works – however the focus of the sport being time manipulation implies that builders Action Squad Studios are going to have their work lower out for them arising with fight encounters that leverage your capacity to rewind time with out being horribly irritating. It’s an excellent idea on paper, however it’s going to require quite a lot of intelligent design to make it sing.
Oddly, it appears that evidently Iron Danger could be a repurposed movie property, closely reworked. While the sport we see above appears pretty swords-and-sorcery in nature, a proof-of-concept trailer for the movie of the identical identify from 2015 options WW2 weaponry and big mecha-bears. However, the hyperlink to the Iron Danger site within the trailer description now leads solely to the video games’s web page, though there may be a tie-in comic series planned.
There’s no launch date for the sport itself, however the Iron Danger comedian collection is because of launch its first chapter a while this yr. In the meantime, you may observe improvement of it through the game’s site (which features a publication to join), in addition to the developer’s Twitter feed.
