Beyond Sunset Demo is Live For Steam Next Fest - Hardcore Gamer

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Steam Next Fest has arrived, granting indie fans the opportunity to get hands on time with all manner of upcoming indie titles. It’s a gamer’s dream sample platter, but it comes with an inherent problem: too much choice. With so many games to try, it can be difficult to decide where to begin. For those who enjoy DOOM and Deus Ex though, Metacorp’s Beyond Sunset might just be the best game to kick things off.

Beyond Sunset casts players as Lucy, an amnesiac “street-samurai” striving to survive in the year 20XX. Her world is a cyberpunk dystopia not too dissimilar from the likes of Cyberpunk 2077’s Night City or Deus Ex: Mankind Divided’s Prague. Corporations rule the world, but the streets are dominated by everything from yakuza families to robots to plague-ridden zombies. Most of these won’t want to be reasonable, so Lucy’s gonna have to slice and shoot her way through them as she wrks to recover her lost memories.

Metacorp and Movie Games are pitching Beyond Sunset as a fast-paced and hectic 360-degree shooter with RPG elements. Levels are described as large, open and interactive, which makes it sound like players will more or less have free reign to tackle them however they wish. Emphasis appears to be on combat, but the developer is also drawing attention to the game’s dialogue system. Considering that Deus Ex is one of the inspirations mentioned on Beyond Sunset’s Steam page, it may be that players will have opportunities to talk their way to some objectives should they wish it. They might even have some story-impacting decisions to make as well.

It’s also sounding like the team is taking full advantage of Beyond Sunset’s open level design too. One would expect this sort of game to primarily deliver its story through