New Blood immersive sim Gloomwood—Thief with weapons, in case you’re nasty—continues to be a methods off from full launch, nevertheless it’s already effectively price your time even in early entry. Each replace has adorned the in-progress construct with wild new zones and options, from cutting-edge rat AI to player-morphing monster juice. This time round, New Blood is promising the sport’s greatest explorable space but, which implies it is a good time to strive all these spooky new toys.
The Hightown Replace comes after a brief delay, however dropped simply in time for a New Yr’s Day celebration. The discharge trailer reveals off among the new areas and a brand new weapon: a revolver with a rifle inventory and a scope slapped on.
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A teaser weblog submit on Steam stated the brand new patch comprises each “largest, most vertical open space” and “essentially the most subtle, deadly and sophisticated enemy pressure” but seen in Gloomwood, and reveals off extra of the brand new areas, which look suitably gothic and dismal. Again when the patch was delayed round Christmas, developer Dillon Rogers stated on X that the brand new revolver-rifle would assist gamers “sort out these pesky constable snipers.”
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My expertise with Gloomwood is proscribed, however I do love a stealth sport with winding, open areas to skulk round. Gamers on Reddit are noticing that Hightown is fairly acquainted to the areas used within the demo, and after seeing a side-by-side comparability, it is exceptional how far the sport has come since that demo launched in 2020. It is also the primary time I’ve internalized that 2020 was six years in the past, which as I am writing it, does not really feel like it may possibly probably be true. And but, right here we’re.
If the Hightown Replace has piqued your curiosity, Gloomwood is in the stores on Steam.
