Battletech, Shadowrun, and The Lamplighters League developer Harebrained Schemes has introduced its first challenge since parting methods with Paradox Interactive final yr. It is a “post-cyberpunk survival horror RPG” known as Graft and it is heading to PC.
Graft’s story unfolds within the depths of a decaying continent-sized area station often known as the Arc, dwelling to forgotten applied sciences and unsettling wonders. Gamers should courageous its horrors as they traverse “huge chasms, labyrinthine techno-catacombs, and self-replicating corridors”, going through enemies in fight – together with “historical experiments, monstrous abominations, and relentless brokers of a mad AI” – and Grafting as they go.
That is just about precisely what it seems like, requiring gamers to scavenge physique elements from fallen opponents and graft them onto themselves so as to alter their bodily kind, gaining new skills and powers as they do. However Grafting a component additionally infuses gamers with its earlier proprietor’s reminiscences, creating what Harebrained calls a “haunting interaction of survival, transformation, and self-discovery”.
“Kind alliances, construct belief, and face the fact that anybody nonetheless residing could possibly be each an ally and a risk,” teases the studio. “Your choices will form your journey and decide the destiny of these you encounter… Will you escape the Arc along with your humanity intact, or turn into one thing else solely?”
There isn’t any trace of a launch date for Graft, however Harebrained is presently aiming to launch it through the Epic Video games Retailer and Steam. It’s going to be the studio’s first launch since final yr’s flawed by entertaining turn-based technique sport The Lamplighter’s League, which writer Paradox Interactive later declared a $22m flop.
That announcement was adopted by the information Paradox was parting methods with Harebrained Schemes – which it had acquired again in 2018 following the discharge of BattleTech – with the writer retaining the rights to The Lamplighters League, BattleTech, Necropolis, and the Shadowrun Trilogy.
