Even if the title weren’t a giveaway, you’d know Tales From Off-Peak City is a Cosmo D game from the philosophical pizza order, the eclectic collections of outsized objects, a constructing morphed right into a face, and his visible model that I’ve simply realised jogs my memory of 90s multimedia CD-ROMs. The musician and developer just lately introduced his subsequent game set on this planet of Off-Peak, one other first-person journey game exploring a wierd place, poking into secrets and techniques, opening drawers and urgent buttons, and getting tangled in one thing stranger than it first appears. I’m effectively up for an additional Cosmo D game.
He first invited us to this world with Off-Peak, set inside a prepare station fastidiously curated by the supervisor, then to a lodge that was previously a famed musician’s mansion with The Norwood Suite. Both of these are glorious, visiting locations that commit so absolutely to their dreamy kinds that they don’t appear bizarre in any respect, it’s simply how they’re. Few video game locations are so firmly caught in my head. Which brings us to Tales From Off-Peak City, a brand new subseries telling completely different tales centered on a single avenue nook within the metropolis.
Cosmo D just lately defined the premise of Volume 1 on the Itch page for Tales:
“It’s a hazy Sunday morning on the corner of July Avenue and Yam Street. Caetano Grosso, a former saxophone player and longtime pizza-maker, is just getting his pizza oven warmed up. Orders are trickling in, and he needs someone to help with the deliveries. You sense an opportunity, but unbeknownst to him, what you’re really after is his old saxophone, and you’re going to get it one way or another. Your pursuit will set off a chain of events across the neighbourhood, taking you deep into the hidden worlds and private lives of the people living there.”
At the intersection of July and Yam, a story on the intersection of pizza and crime. I don’t know a lot concerning the crime but but it surely appears we’ll get to make pizza:
Also, will probably be a kind of games (i.e. good games) which give us a digital camera and a photograph album.
I furiously mash my screenshot whereas taking part in Cosmo’s games anyway so I welcome a possibility to do the identical within the game world.
I’m very eager to listen to a number of the soundtrack too. Cosmo’s been a musician longer than a game developer (taking part in with Archie Pelago) and lays down some thick moods. Music is important to his games. As a lot as I discuss concerning the locations, I dig the temper and the tales operating by them too.
No agency phrase but on then the Tales will start. Cosmo has mentioned on the official Discord server that he’s unsure whether or not the Tales will probably be one episodic game or a string of separate games, although he’s leaning in the direction of separate. Whichever. I’ll take ’em all.
For extra on why I like Cosmo D’s games a lot, take a look at Pip and I chatting about Off-Peak’s train station in 2015, Adam’s stay in The Norwood Suite, and us declaring Norwood one of 2017’s best. You may also play Off-Peak totally free (on Steam or Itch) and check out a demo of Norwood (additionally on Steam or Itch).
