Indie studio Red Square Games has announced SlavicPunk: Oldtimer, an isometric shooter/hacker/sneaker based on the fiction of Polish author Michał Gołkowski. You play a private investigator with various troubles and mustache intimidating sitcom dads who go up against familiar gangsters and corrupt corporate executives.
SlavicPunk: Oldtimer promises “a solid combat and movement system, and a modular weapon upgrade system.” Stealth is definitely an option, but considering all the people getting shot or stabbed in the back during the trailer, it might not be the non-lethal stealth. includes “Battle Hacking,” which describes it as a “unique high-tech spellcasting system.”
Between dangerous areas where the player needs to sneak in and shoot, explore the city, find side quests and advance plots involving stolen data and the corporations responsible for ruining your city. There are peaceful moments.
It sounds like a pretty generic story, but what you can expect is more culturally specific elements alongside the usual image of a dystopian city lined with flying cars and hologram strippers. kick. It’s reminiscent of Peripateia’s only isometrics, but you’re not playing Major Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell, but the most grizzly man that’s ever lived.
According to Red Square, the developers first asked, “What will the world look like in decades? Virtual Central and Eastern European cities and their inhabitants will be similar to, say, Blade Runner’s LA or Akira’s Neo-Tokyo. How would it be different?’.
“The attempt to answer this puzzle has had a great influence on the game’s artistic choices, such as the combination of futuristic and overly outdated technology, the brutality typical of post-communist countries, and the The brutal architecture, the less so of the characters, etc. -The overt moral choices and often crude and ad hoc, tug-of-war character and atmosphere of the environment lead to the unequal distribution of goods and wealth. and often rely on their wits and luck to move on.
Red Square is also working on a tabletop RPG with the same setting called SibirPunk, and plans to crowdfund it via Kickstarter’s dedicated gaming platform. game found (opens in new tab)SlavicPunk: Oldtimer will be released in the second quarter of 2023. vapor (opens in new tab).