AdolfSatan
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Alata, IBM Plex, League Spartan, Solway… They all are free, open source, and designed by proper professionals.
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KickStarter Peripeteia - Deus Ex-inspired FPS/RPG set in anime cyberpunk Poland - now available on Early Access
- Thread starter Shodanon
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shit will be out of early access no later than 2028. promise!
At this point you could take bets whether this or Arma 4 or Call of Sarengar comes out first.
Thanks,
Sherry
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https://www.eurogamer.net/peripeteia-offers-beguiling-maddening-cyberpunk-beauty
Peripeteia offers beguiling, maddening cyberpunk beauty
Tears in the drain.
Yellow paint; waypoints; sparkling particles lighting the path forward. According to some, modern games have become reluctant to let players off the leash. So conspicuous has the level designer’s hand become when guiding players that the fundamental act of eye-widening discovery has been dumbed down, reduced to little more than scripted vista reveals. So, what happens when you set players free, providing minimal steering in a vast and potentially confusing 3D setting? You might get a game like the indie immersive sim, Peripeteia, a thriller that trusts you to find your own way in an abyssal cyberpunk sprawl.
Those who have become exacerbated with overt hand-holding seem to be precisely the audience developer Ninth Exodus is courting. The Steam page for Peripeteia reads, "have you found yourself hungering for a sense of survival, accomplishment, and player choice long absent from this dark and belied industry?" If you nod your head along to any of that then this game (out today in early access), may be for you (and fans of 2021's Cruelty Squad would also do well to check it out, too).
You play as Marie, a cyborg who wakes up with little recollection of herself or this near-future dystopian version of Poland. Her first mission is to track down a lucrative bulb for a junker called Filemon. Such is the frankly preposterous scale of this city it can frequently feel like you're trying to find a needle in the haystack — searching for the key item or interaction which moves the story along. The game feels like an id Tech 3 fever dream, driven by a strange and unstable kind of logic, albeit grounded by an impressive spatial coherence.
Alongside admirably flexible, if frustratingly janky, first-person traversal, you'll do lots of fiddling about with one of the grottiest (complimentary) inventories I've ever seen in a video game, as if it has been beamed directly out of 1999's Garage: Bad Dream Adventure, held together with little more than gaffer tape.
There are choices to make about which factions to befriend (brilliantly named dissidents like The Subculturalists, a ruling militarised force, and more). These choices are made and delivered via crude but stylish dialogue boxes and unceremonious, hyper-violent action. This is another way the game takes a hands-off approach. You're never quite sure when you are about to do something momentous. Such crucial moments are hardly signposted: they just kind of happen, over in the blink eye before the game thrusts you down another sewer of immense, unfathomably vast pipework whose effluence is rendered in queasy Matrix green.
Image credit: Eurogamer/Ninth Exodus
Cyberpunk has, if you ask me, become a little aspirational in recent years with a certain oligarch turned unelected U.S. government official taking all the wrong fascist lessons from Deus Ex. Thankfully, Peripeteia reminds us how thoroughly miserable this kind of future would be. It's reminiscent of Bloober's 2017 cyberpunk gem, Observer, not in how it plays, but the world it presents. Both depict a kind of unimaginably filthy post-industrial decay: tenement buildings stacked atop of one another; unrelenting blooms of fog and rain, concrete that seems to be decaying in real time. The game is unafraid of being ugly in telling a story of ugliness.
Image credit: Eurogamer/Ninth Exodus
Still, I'm conscious of overselling what Peripeteia offers. Even in its early hours, the game can be maddeningly obtuse, bugs abound, enemy AI isn't great, and I'm not sold on the odd waifu stylings of protagonist, Marie.
Yet, the moments this game conjures as you navigate the various strata of its crumbling, vertiginous megacity, stumbling across sights capable of filling you simultaneously with dread and awe are superbly powerful. These feelings arrive because developer Ninth Exodus is committed to letting you make your own path through its cold and alienating world.
.png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp "The player looks up to a night sky with skyscrapers visible through the blue haze in Peripeteia.")
.png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp "The player looks up to a jumble of TV screens showing a man's face in Peripeteia.")
.png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp "The player travels along a green sewer tunnel in Peripeteia.")
.png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp "The player looks down on a train platform with light streaming in through a metal grate, revealing colourful graffiti on the wall, in Peripeteia.")
.png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp "The player approaches a woman called the Hallway Weirdo in a starkly lit apartment building in Peripeteia.")
.png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp "The player looks at a table full of 'cokebricks' in Peripeteia.")
GentlemanCthulhu
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This game seemingly can't even get *into* early access. Currently stuck on "Coming soon" after the release timer expired.
Litmanen
Educated
It is available now.
Echo Mirage
Arcane
25 dollars for unfinished pshek jank is absurd
Disregard Roguey was right, check spam.
Shodanon
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If you haven't received your key be sure to DM me or email shodanon@90s.graphics.Backed it for $20 on Kickstarter but I don't get the early access version unless I paid "Minister of supporting us" ($65) even though it launched for $22? That's pretty fucking lame. Generally speaking beta on Kickstarter = non-accessible by any other means and if you launch on early access you get the game then and there. I've backed dozens of projects and this is a first.
My bad, the message read like it was exclusive to that tier. I retrieved it out of my email aliasing service's spam. Thank you.
thesecret1
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Shodanon
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Most other devs remove the demo on release day. We leave ours up just in case you might not vibe with it
thesecret1
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Get some better font, holy shit, what is this?
EDIT: Also, the inventory UI needs polish:
You are determining the highlight based on the cursor position, instead of the object position, which is very annoying. You seem to want to keep the cursor in the top middle of the item, which is good (center would be even better), but you aren't adding the offset in the inventory panel.
EDIT: Also, the inventory UI needs polish:
You are determining the highlight based on the cursor position, instead of the object position, which is very annoying. You seem to want to keep the cursor in the top middle of the item, which is good (center would be even better), but you aren't adding the offset in the inventory panel.
Wait wait, do you actually play as tranny here?
PlayerEmers
Educated
dont think so, no
Its a schizo discord/social media user making shit up, trying to force his ideologies into the game.
This happens mainly because of the anime aesthetics on the protagonist, overall vibes/genre of the game (cyberpunk and shit) and because its a game with female protagonist.
Anime have a tendency to attract the worst type of people you can ever think to game communities , making the PC a woman its the cherry on the top because attracts people who instantly want to imply the characters are lesbian or trans or both. You can observe this same behavior in other games with anime aesthethics and girl characters.
tl;dr: Making "cute" anime girl characters in certain types of video games have a tendency of attract people who assume every girl in the game is gay, trans or both, trying to relate their ideologies to the game.
thesecret1
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Virgin anime girl vs Chad Priest. Holy fuck he's tall. Or is it Marie being too small?
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