A gaggle of trade veterans have banded collectively to create a brand new growth studio by the identify of Lunacy Studios, and its first mission, The Home of Hikmah, is a story journey about “grief, legacy, and the seek for objective after profound loss”.
As revealed in a press launch, Lunacy Studios consists of staffers who’ve labored on franchises like Mass Impact, Murderer’s Creed, and Star Wars: Battlefront, though their debut mission would not sound an entire lot like several of these titles.
As a substitute, it follows Maya, a “curious and sorrowful 14-year-old lady”, as she seems for solutions after her father passes away. The sport is about in the course of the Islamic Golden Age, so you may anticipate loads of breathtaking structure and deep philosophical dialogue as well.
As you discover your environment, you will meet “historic students” from the interval, who’re navigating their very own grief, and maintain discussions with them with the intention to discover “knowledge and luxury of their scientific and philosophical teachings”.
It is not all dialog, although. Maya additionally has entry to a magical heirloom from her father that enables her to “remodel matter and resolve metaphorical puzzles consultant of her journey”, together with transferring platforms, reactivating historical equipment, and gliding by channels of wind.
You will additionally come face-to-face with the mysterious-sounding Widow, a “surreal power misplaced in her personal unmanaged grief”, and participate in “interactive dream sequences” to flee somebody who sounds quite a bit like a cautionary story for our heroine.
If you happen to like video games like Celeste, Tales of Kenzera: Zau, and Gris, it sounds such as you’ll get quite a bit out of this one, though it additionally sounds as if the gameplay is not fairly as frenetic as all that.
The Home of Hikmah will launch for PC through Steam and GOG someday within the first quarter of subsequent yr. Keep tuned for extra.
