I’ve been holding half a retina on techo-noir technique game Re-Legion for a couple of months now, lured by an elevator pitch that’s successfully ‘what if they made a whole game based around Syndicate’s Persuadatron?’ In it, you identify a brand new opiate of the plenty and recruit weak-minded civilians to do your bidding – together with, naturally, disputing the preachings of rival such cults. With weapons, like.
A black’n’neon palette and veritable flocks of murderous parishioners are a positive hearth technique to flip cyberpunk-hungry heads, however in the present day’s the day we discover out whether or not it’s our new faith or a false prophet.
Re-Legion’s due for launch later in the present day, by way of Steam and GOG. Here’s the launch trailer, which has some advantageous sights and the superb opening line “Connection with God established”:
Honestly, I nonetheless can’t work out whether or not that is doing one thing really recent or simply ploughing the same old RTS furrows, however with ‘recruit’ as an alternative of ‘build’ within the menu textual content.
There’s little to be gleaned, both, from its developer’s earlier work – Ice Code Studios have solely a candy-hued puzzle game and a VR tackle Marble Madness to their identify to this point. I’m hoping they will make this work, because the idea’s a humdinger.
