

The gameplay experience was specifically inspired by the developers' cats, Murtaugh and Riggs, and the team studied several images and videos of cats for research. Stray was influenced aesthetically by Kowloon Walled City, which the developers felt could be appropriately explored by a cat.


They partnered with Annapurna Interactive to publish the game, known by its working title HK Project. The game's development began in 2015, led by BlueTwelve Studio founders Colas Koola and Vivien Mermet-Guyenet, who wanted to pursue an independent project after working at Ubisoft Montpellier. Throughout the game, the player must evade the antagonistic Zurks and Sentinels, both of whom will attempt to kill them. Using B-12, they can store items found throughout the world, and hack into technology to solve puzzles necessary to progress the narrative. The player traverses by leaping across platforms and climbing up obstacles, and can interact with the environment to open new paths. The game is presented through a third-person perspective. The story follows a stray cat who falls into a walled city populated by robots, machines, and mutant bacteria, and sets out to return to the surface with the help of a drone companion called B-12. If you’re interested in signing up for the beta then head over here.Stray is a 2022 adventure video game developed by BlueTwelve Studio and published by Annapurna Interactive. Stray Blade is due out later this year and is wishlistable on Steam and the Epic Games Store. It does have a character called CJ though, so it’s got that going for it. Katharine reviewed Hundred Heroes’ companion game, Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising, feeling it was “definitely not the required must-play you need to absorb beforehand”. There’s not much to go on for that one yet, except for a 2023 release date.ĥ05 Games showed off a little of Rabbit and Bear Studios’ sidescrolling JPRG Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes too, which has more than 100 playable characters and is clearly underselling itself with that title. Also announced at the 505 Games showcase was Miasma Chronicles, the next tactical post-apocalyptic game from Mutant Year Zero devs The Bearded Ladies. Among The Trolls launches later this year in Early Access on Steam. There weren’t many trolls shown in the 505 Games showcase but, as you can see from the trailer above, the forests looked pleasant.

He’ll revive you if you can’t get up too.Īmong The Trolls is a survival game set in Finland, where you can encounter magical creatures and craft things to placate the spirits of the forest. Boji is happy to jump in to aid you and even has his own little skill tree, bless. The player was blown up and killed in a magical explosion to even get to the Valley, for a start, and the whole shebang revolves around mastering special metals to forge weapons to see off the irate residents. Although there's no new footage we can bring you, life in the Valley does seem brutal going by the footage shown by 505 Games today. Apparently, the ultimate goal is to return peace and tranquillity to the Valley by using much of the hacking and the slashing.
