A new trailer for upcoming PS5 title Fort Solis details what's happening on the surface of Mars, and studio Fallen Leaf is pitching the experience as something you can binge just like a Netflix TV show. The game is split up into four episodes each roughly an hour long, and the developer gives you the chance to play the whole thing in one go or split your time up between each episode.
All four instalments ship on 22nd August 2023 for PS5, so you won't be waiting weeks like a Telltale game. It has been envisioned as "a hybrid piece of media, emphasizing narration and immersion" through four chapters with "exploration, nerve racking set pieces, and a deep plot to discover" on Mars. Voice actors Troy Baker and Roger Clark have lent their vocals to the project, with the story told across a single shot ala God of War.
"Responding to an unusual emergency call from a remote mining base, Jack arrives at the dark and desolate Fort Solis," the PS Store listing explains. "With storm warnings imminent, he heads inside to make desperate contact. As the night grows longer, events escalate, spiral out of control, and the mystery of what happened to the crew begins to reveal itself."
Are you interested in this one? Will you binge it to see what happens right away? Let us know in the comments below.
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Definitely interested if the price is right. Love a good liner story driven game between my big open world epics
Will they be charging for each episode of this walking simulator, or do they all come at one price? Do they intend to make additional episodes beyond the 4 hrs stated, almost like a running series or is this a one, or i guess 4 off thing?
I watched a good long stint of what this is on IGN, and it really seems like they should have just made it one or the other. an actual game with gameplay, or a show. There is no reason to have to hold a stick forward merely to hear new lines of dialogue or trigger some visual set piece to occur if the interaction with the world is this basic. Had no idea that the gameplay shown was actually quite a chunk of an entire episode if they really are only an hour.
While I don't always associate game length with price - a great experience is worth paying for - there is a limit. At 4 hours it will be interesting to see what the price is.
Roughly four hours of gameplay... Wonder how much the price will be
Have they announced the pricing yet? I'm intrigued by it but depends at what price
@KundaliniRising333 @themightyant @pyrrhic_victory @IAmAshCohen17 Amazon USA has a physical version listed for $34.99.
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Definitely interested in this. But I'm still a little confused as to what it actually is. Is it supposed to be a horror game?
@themightyant Agreed. Not every game listed for $70 needs to be a 100 hour epic. However, a game that only lasts 4-6 hours should probably be price $40-50 at most (games do still cost a lot of money to make after all, regardless of length).
This looks really interesting. Just wish it had some action. Looks like it's going to be mainly just interacting with the environment and running.
I've seen this exact aesthetic in science fiction probably around two dozen times or more. I can't be the only one who's just absolutely sick to death of it at this point, surely? What happened to that cool, blocky retro future like in Alien Isolation? That raygun gothic appeal of Fallout?
The two lead actors are two of my all time favorites, but I’ll need to see more before deciding whether to pick it up. I’m all for tighter and better games that don’t take a billion hours to complete, but four hours seems awfully short.
Tbh 4 hrs works for a single-shot experience. If it becomes too long you have to resort to tricks to extend the narrative for a single protagonist. This would feel natural. Interested if I can get a deal.
Looks brilliant, love the Deadspace, Calisto vibe. Definitely will get this.
Looks fawking incredible I’ll binge this
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