Tag: Kepler Interactive
News Eerie Survival Driving Game Pacific Drive Is Getting a TV Adaptation from Horror Legend
Atomic Monster picks up TV rights
An early indie hit in 2024 was Pacific Drive, a unique supernatural survival game that's all about exploring a mysterious exclusion zone in a banged up station wagon. This premise, the loose story, and involved, engrossing gameplay has made it somewhat of a cult hit, and it's still receiving meaningful updates too...
News Physics-Bending Platformer Bionic Bay Warps onto PS5 in March 2025
Let's Bay-blade
Publisher Kepler Interactive has announced a release date for its upcoming 2D platformer, Bionic Bay. Announced earlier in the year, Bionic Bay is a challenging puzzle platformer in which you're able to slow down time, shift gravity, swap positions with objects, and more. You'll use your various abilities to get through...
News PS5 RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Sounds Even Better in French
Magnifique
You may recall hyped RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 recently announced an all-star English voice cast for the game, but it’s amassed an equally impressive array of talent for its native French dub. Among the names involved here are Alexandre Gillet (Captain America) and Sarah Cornibert (Black Mirror). To announce the dub, developer...
News Expedition 33 Dev Confirms $50 Price Is Correct, '30+ Hours of Main Game'
Wants as many people as possible to play RPG
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 team Sandfall Interactive has responded to concerns its debut RPG may come with a catch or some sort of drawback since it's not charging $70 for the game. Taking to X (or Twitter), the studio confirmed the recently listed $50 price point is indeed correct a
News Fans Can't Fathom Why PS5 RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Is So Cheap
Budget price for big budget game
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the promising new turnbased RPG from Sandfall Interactive, looks absolutely incredible and has attracted an all-star cast – so why, then, is it so cheap? That’s what fans are pondering, after pre-orders for the title were deployed on Amazon for $49.99 – a budget price in this era of...
News Anticipated PS5 RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Attracts All-Star Cast
Due out Spring 2025
We’re not sure we quite understand how turn-based RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has come out of nowhere and completely captured the imagination of the entire games industry, but it’s not letting go with this all-star cast announcement. Despite being developed by a relatively unknown studio, Sandfall Interactive, it’s...
News Pacific Drive's Latest PS5 Update Lets You Tinker with Wide Range of Difficulty Options
Drive your way
Developer Ironwood Studios isn't done with Pacific Drive just yet. Its debut game, a roguelike survival experience about traversing a volatile landscape in a banged-up old car, has been a success for the team, and its latest update is a big one, allowing players to fully customise a huge variety of difficulty parameters. You can get a...
News Turn-Based RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Gets 7 Minutes of Gorgeous New PS5 Gameplay
Obscur enough for ya?
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 certainly caught the eye when it was first revealed a couple of months back. It's a 'realistic' looking turn-based RPG from French developer Sandfall Interactive, which follows a group of explorers as they delve into otherworldly locations. Conceptually unique and quite beautiful to behold in terms...
Review Cat Quest 3 (PS5) - Fun, Seafaring RPG Doesn't Quite Match Its Pawesome Predecessor
A whisker away
A new entry in The Gentlebros' all-ages action RPG series, Cat Quest 3 opts for a pirate-themed escapade, in which you play as a fearless seafaring feline. In search of a legendary treasure known only as the North Star, you'll explore an open map made up of ocean and islands, often aboard your trusty tub. As we've come to expect, this...
33's a magic number
It feels like a lot of recent RPGs have tried to put unique spins on traditional turn-based combat. For example, Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Rebirth took the original game's classic ATB system and incorporated real-time action, and it's a similar story with Trails through Daybreak and its evolved ambush mechanic. Even upcoming...
News Pacific Drive Gets Photo Mode, New Customisation Options, More in Free Update
Paid cosmetics pack also available
Developer Ironwood Studios has just released a big update for its supernatural driving game, Pacific Drive. This is the first major content update for the title, bringing new features and gameplay to the experience for free. Photo mode is perhaps the biggest new addition, allowing you to take snapshots of your...
Mini Review Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn (PS5) - Yeah, It's Pretty Good
Use axe to grind
Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn is the textbook definition of a good video game. You probably won't think of it much after rolling credits, but in the moment, there's enough in its roughly 12-hour campaign for a fulfilling time. A quick hit of comfort food for the Souls-like audience, it succeeds with fun combat and movement abilities...
News Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn Sets the Scene in PS5, PS4 Story Trailer
Always bring a gun to a god fight
Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn drops on PS5 and PS4 next week, on 18th July, and to tide us over in the meantime, we've been besieged by a suitably epic story trailer. Developed by New Zealand-based studio A44 Games, Flintlock's narrative is one of vengeance. Playing as Nor, you are aided by a mysterious, foxlike...
News Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn Offers No Respite with Extended Gameplay Trailer
Death to gods
Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn is currently encircling fans of action RPGs and Soulslikes, preparing to storm the breach on 18th July on PS5. Developer A44 Games and publisher Kepler Interactive, with the assistance of IGN, have released a suitably stirring narrative trailer and an extensive look at gameplay. Set in a world in which...
News Need Another Soulslike? Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn Attacks PS5 Next Month
Dawn another day
Soulslikes are beginning to feel like that old Oprah meme, eh? You get a Soulslike, you get a Soulslike – everyone gets a Soulslike! Still, if you’re currently feeling starved of Souslikes, we have great news: the previously announced Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn is due on 18th July for PS5, and pre-orders are available now...
News French Turn-Based RPG Expedition 33 Announced for PS5 in Promising Debut Trailer
From first time dev Sandfall Interactive
French developer Sandfall Interactive has shared its first-ever game as a team: Expedition 33, a turn-based RPG inspired by JRPG classics and action titles. It was announced for PS5 having debuted at the Xbox Games Showcase, and you can catch a good glimpse in the reveal trailer above. With Final Fantasy XVI...
News Charming Action RPG Cat Quest 3 Sails to PS5, PS4 In August
The quest continues
Formerly known as Cat Quest: Pirates of the Purribean, but now renamed Cat Quest 3, the third game in developer The Gentlebros' charming series is sailing to PS5 and PS4 on the 8th August. The title also has a new trailer that's stuffed with fresh gameplay footage — and if, like us, you're a fan of the first two games, then...
News Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn Gets Extended PS5 Gameplay Overview
Don't go off half-cocked
Flintlock: Siege of Dawn is an upcoming PS5 action RPG from New Zealand developer A44 Games, best known for its 2018 Souls-Like, Ashen. Today, we were treated to an extended gameplay overview of the studio's next game, giving us our best look yet, with commentary from creative director Simon Dasan. Influenced by flintlock...
Review Pacific Drive (PS5) - The Car Is the Reasonably Priced Star of Deep, Dense Survival Game
Here in my car, I feel safest of all
Cars are inanimate objects, but if you drive one, you've undoubtedly formed a relationship with it. Perhaps you've named your vehicle after the way it looks; maybe you'd be more concerned if it didn't have that indiscernible rattle; it could be falling to pieces, but you've never known a more dependable...
Review Ultros (PS5) - Trippy Metroidvania Tangles with Great Ideas
Its ambition is boundless
This is already turning into a bumper year for Metroidvania fans. With the excellent Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown having kicked things off beautifully, Ultros now arrives from a smaller publisher but with no small hype of its own. With a gob-smackingly unique art style and a fungal, miasmic tone, it certainly looks like...
Interview How Castlevania, Studio Ghibli Inspired the Action Gardening of Ultros
And there's a double jump!
Not only is February a big month for the AAA titles of the world, but it's also lined up some fascinating indie games for PS5, PS4 owners to digest. Alongside Pacific Drive is Ultros, an incredibly colourful platformer promising just as much brutal action as there is calming gardening. It is out for Sony's two systems on...
News Learn How to Survive Pacific Drive with Developer-Led Gameplay on PS5
Stop, revive, survive
Station wagon survival sim Pacific Drive is making good time on the road to launch, with an ETA of 22nd February on PS5. Instead of a playlist full of classic rock anthems, we've got nine minutes of developer-led gameplay for you today to make the wait until launch goes by that little bit quicker. Ironwood Studios' creative...
News Ultros Talks You Through Its Vibrant Sci-Fi World in Gameplay Overview Trailer
Gardners world
Ultros certainly stands out from the crowd, doesn't it? The vivid colours and clean lines of its art style are very eye-catching, but in this new video, developer Hadoque goes over what you'll actually be doing in this sci-fi Metroidvania. The adventure takes place on the Sarcophagus, a mysterious alien ship full that appears to be a...
News Action RPG Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn Keeping PS5, PS4 Powder Dry Until Summer 2024
Survivor, soldier, god killer
Guns and gods collide in Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn, from Ashen developer A44 Games. We got a new trailer giving us a good look at combat and learned the game currently has a Summer 2024 release on PS5 and PS4 lined up. The story follows Nor Vanek, a soldier in a coalition army fighting for survival against a...
News Psychedelic Side-Scroller Ultros Brings Colour to PS5, PS4 in February
10% discount for PS Plus members
First announced for PS5, PS4 during Sony's PlayStation Showcase earlier this year, it's been confirmed the psychedelic side-scroller Ultros will release on 13th February 2024. It's available to pre-order now on the PS Store for £17.99 / $22.49 with a 10 per cent PS Plus dis
Mini Review Scorn (PS5) - A Brilliantly Disgusting Puzzler with Gameplay Woes
Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility
Scorn was announced by Ebb Software way back in 2014, so we've been waiting a while. After a successful (if critically mixed) launch on Game Pass last year, the game is ready for PS5, but is that a good thing? The answer to that is mostly a "yes". Inspired by the visual style of legendary...
News Vibrant PS5, PS4 Indie Ultros Reveals Its Opening Moments
New trailer ahead of 2024 launch
First confirmed during this year's PlayStation Showcase, developer Hadoque has shared a fresh look at the psychedelic PS5, PS4 indie game Ultros. Slated to release in 2024, you can catch a glimpse of the 2D title's first few minutes, where it introduces the colourful world protagonist Ouji is set to explore. Take a...
News Scorn, the Most Repulsive Game Ever Made, Comes to PS5 in October
H.R. Giger-bytes
Publisher Kepler Interactive and developer Ebb Software have finally announced a release date for the PS5 port of Scorn, the grotesque first-person horror title that first launched last year. If you're interested in exploring its fleshy, squelchy nightmare of a world, you can do so when it arrives on 3rd October 2023. Inspired by...
News PS5 Port of Body Horror Scorn Potentially Teased in Series of Cryptic Tweets
Please keep it
Scorn was one of the grosser games released in 2022, and despite being an Xbox console exclusive, it appears a potential PS5 port is being teased on Twitter, albeit in a really convoluted, increasingly disgusting way. Inspired by the biomechanical artistic stylings of H. R. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński, it's likely you've seen...
News Cat Quest: Pirates of the Purribean Brings the Fangtastic Action RPG Series Back to PS5, PS4
Sets sail in 2024
We certainly didn't expect to see a Cat Quest sequel pop up in a PlayStation Showcase, but we genuinely couldn't be happier to see Cat Quest: Pirates of the Purribean become a reality. If you're unfamiliar with the series, both Cat Quest and Cat Quest II are simple but delightfully fun action RPGs, and this third game looks to be...
News PS Plus Helps Put Tchia in One Million Players' Hands
PS5, PS4 physical versions announced
Day one PS Plus Extra game Tchia has been played by more than one million players across PS5, PS4, and PC, studio Awaceb has today announced. Its release onto Sony's subscription service will probably make up a significant portion of that player base, but sales on the PS Store and across PC will have contributed...
News Shuhei Yoshida Gets on the Sticks for Chill Let's Play Indies! Tchia Sesh
Like and subscribe
Shuhei Yoshida, Sony's Head of Independent Developer Initiative, is in the business of indie games, and he isn't afraid to get his hands dirty. Such was the case with the colourful Tchia, which he took for a spin, assisted by Awaceb game director Phil Crifo and host Sarah "Snaxan" Carlos. The trio traipse around the idyllic...
News Tchia PS5 Patch Adds 60fps Support
Plus bug fixes and polish
Tchia developer Awaceb has today pushed a new update for the PS5 version of the chill, island explorer that adds 60fps support. It's available to download now and clocks in at 225MB, which brings the game up to version number 1.008. You can also look forward to further polishing and bug fixes, as well as fixes for crashes...
News Tchia Gets Blowout Gameplay Trailer Ahead of Imminent PS Plus Extra Launch
Time to unwind
The gorgeous-looking Tchia is only hours away, and we got one final glimpse of the scenic adventure title in a gameplay deep-dive trailer. The trailer looks at different aspects of the game's setting and mechanics, some of which have been detailed previously but are collated here nicely. We enjoyed Tchia, and in our review, we wrote...
Review Tchia (PS5) - Unique Island Adventure Is a Joyful, Creative Playground
Totally tropical
Developer Awaceb created Tchia as a love letter to its native home of New Caledonia. Though the game itself is set on a fantastical archipelago, it draws deeply from its real-life counterpart in terms of environment and story. It feels really genuine as a snapshot of the culture; its story is heavily rooted in the territory's...
News PS Plus Extra's Tchia Will Demand 100% Completion for Platinum Trophy
Time to do everything
We’ve already pretty well established that Tchia looks genuinely incredible, and it’ll be available to download at no extra cost for PS Plus Extra and PS Plus Premium subscribers starting next week. You may be wondering how difficult the Platinum Trophy will prove to unlock, then – and it’s probably going to take you...
News Express Yourself with Tchia's Intricate Customization Options and Analogue Photo Mode
Smile!
The release of soothing tropical adventure game Tchia draws ever closer, casting off on PS5 and PS4 on 21st March. Today's trailer shows off the many ways in which you can customise Tchia and her boat, as well as an Analogue Photo Mode, which is a really cool inclusion. In addition to street threads and accessories, you can wear traditional...
News Chill Out with Tchia's Relaxing Assortment of Side Activities
Find some time to unwind
Tchia is an open-world exploration inspired by the unique culture and geography of New Caledonia, and we got a new trailer looking at the relaxing ways players can unwind in between adventures. Challenge shooting range records with your trusty slingshot, try and beat the clock in time attack-style races, compete in diving...
News Creativity Is Tchia's Greatest Weapon in Evasive Combat Display
Link could learn a lesson or two
While the colourful world of Tchia is one predominantly of exploration, relaxation and sick ukelele jams, there will be moments where a more direct approach is required, as we learn in a new gameplay trailer. The primary antagonists are the Maano, mindless minions brought to life by Meavora from pieces of wood and...
News Strum Up a Storm with Tchia's Shockingly In-Depth Ukelele Mechanics
Ocarinas are overated
The gorgeous-looking Tchia launches on 21st March, on both PS5 and PS4, and today we got a new trailer looking at yet another gameplay system. This time, Tchia's impressively intricate ukelele mechanics are in the spotlight. The ukelele is integrated into open-world exploration and the story itself, used for performing Soul...
News Tchia Comes to PS Plus Extra Day One on 21st March, New Trailer Revealed
Island life is free
Following in the footsteps (paw prints?) of Stray, Sony has announced its second PS Plus Extra day one title will be Tchia. It launches on 21st March 2023, and you'll be able to play it that same day with an active membership to the service. The news was accompanied by a trailer, which you can check out above; it's all about t
News Delightful Indie Tchia Demonstrates Physics-Based Locomotion and Traversal
Its all in the way you move
The charming indie title Tchia is coming to PS5 and PS4 in Spring, and the more we see of it, the more we look forward to this serene adventure game. Like other games developed in a post-Breath of the Wild world, physics-based locomotion and stamina-restricted climbing are at the core of exploration in Tchia. Use palm...
News Charming Indie Game Tchia Hops onto PS5, PS4 This Spring
One to watch
It feels like we've been waiting on the arrival of Tchia for a very long time, but the gorgeous-looking indie title is finally on the horizon. Writing on the PS Blog, developer Awaceb confirms the cutesy action adventure is hitting PS5 and PS4 in Spring of this year. To recap, Tchia is the name of the main character, a young girl who...
News Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn Packs a Punch in New Gameplay Trailer
Arrives early 2023
Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn, from the makers of successful indie Souls-like Ashen, is looking good in this latest video. Showing off about five minutes of gameplay, you get a good taste of combat, which combines an axe, a gun, and the magical abilities of your furry friend. It looks like you'll deal most of your damage with the...
News Delightful Indie Game Tchia Shares a Tour of the Island
Our next holiday destination
Tchia developer Awaceb has shared a fresh look at its sweet, upcoming indie game all about exploration and island life, inspired by the New Caledonia islands of the South Pacific. Narrated by game director Phil Crifo, a whole nine minutes of footage introduces us to new gameplay mechanics and a surprisingly in-depth...
News Flintlock Flaunts Guns, Blades, and Magic in Combat-Heavy Gameplay Trailer
The Siege of Dawn
Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn was announced earlier this year, coming from the developers of Ashen. After relative silence in the months since, the team has now lifted the lid on its new action RPG, showing off a couple of minutes of gameplay footage in the above trailer. It looks to be a pretty stylish game. The combat allows you...
News Soften the Blow of Tchia's Delay with New Sea-Faring Gameplay
Water water everywhere
We all rather like the look of Tchia here at Push Square Towers, so the recent news of the game's delay was a little disappointing. The game's now due out in early 2023, meaning nearly another year of waiting for the colourful, sunny adventure to hit PS5 and PS4. In the meantime, developer Awaceb has just released a short but...
News Tropical Indie Game Tchia Delayed to Early 2023
Holiday on hold
Developer Awaceb has delayed its exotic open world game Tchia to early 2023, citing the need to polish the game some more and flesh out other small details. Originally scheduled to launch in the spring of this year, you might remember the official announcement from Sony's PlayStation Showcase last September 2021. The reveal was then...
News Ashen Successor Flintlock Details Its World in Behind the Scenes Look
Open world divided into three zones
In a new behind the scenes look, Ashen developer A44 Games is presenting the latest glimpse at its new IP Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn. First announced a few months ago for PlayStation 5 and PS4, it'll arrive later in the year. This new trailer focuses on the world, which is divided up into three zones that can be...
News Ashen Dev Announces Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn, Out This Year for PS5, PS4
Axes, guns, and magic
Ashen, which was originally released in 2018 before being ported to PlayStation 4 a year later, is one of the best Souls-likes not developed by FromSoftware. Go play it if you haven't already because it will serve as the perfect starter for A44 Games' next title: the newly announced Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn. Courtesy of an...
