As summer time will get to be nearly achieved right here within the northern hemisphere, you is perhaps questioning how all these hotter months handed by so shortly. Sol Hemochroma will most likely make you are feeling higher about staying inside a lot, although, because it follows a gaggle of youngsters attempting to benefit from their dwindling college break and as a substitute stumbling upon a blood-soaked small-town conspiracy.
Developers Aether Interactive are relatively skilled with making wordy, atmospheric games. Their earlier releases embody Subserial Network, and Localhost, each of that are cyberpunk-y appears to be like at synthetic intelligence, labour, and morality.
Sol Hemochroma drops the high-tech themes of those earlier games, however stays involved with comparable questions on energy and integrity. It additionally borrows from an analogous playbook to a different of their games, Arc Symphony. Where this message-board sim explores a group devoted to a fictional JRPG as if it had been completely actual, Sol Hemochroma is described as “an adaptation of a lost, 1980s CBC classic film (that could’ve been)”. You can see that framing within the trailer, too:
The teenagers are pushed to discover an deserted citadel after our bodies start to show up, and group chief Jason out of the blue appears nearly supernaturally pushed to search out out why. You get to tag alongside for a narrative that’s as a lot about deciding who to make pals with alongside the way in which as it’s about selecting whether or not and be a hero.
Sol Hemochroma is offered to obtain for pay what you need with no minimal on itch.io. A playthrough takes about 45 minutes, however there’s plenty of dialogue and story branches to return and poke by means of if that’s your form of factor.
