Dying Light developer teases fantasy RPG

eurogamer.net:

Dead Island and Dying Light developer Techland has issued a small tease for its upcoming «exotic» open-world fantasy role-playing game.

Writing on Twitter today, Techland described the project as a «narrative-driven fantasy epic with an exotic open world ready to be explored».

Artwork shows a human holding onto the branches of an enormous tree, overlooking a fantasy landscape and a sky filled with a ripped-apart moon. A few creatures are also shown — what looks like parrots and a lemur.

«We strive to create a compelling story-focused AAA title that combines and refines the best aspects of gameplay that Techland is known for,» the studio continued. Huh — I wonder which those might be?

If the project sounds familiar, then well done you — it has been mentioned before, but not for a number of years.

Back in 2016, Techland confirmed it was making an open-world fantasy title with RPG elements «maybe in a slightly bigger sense than Dying Light,» the studio's boss Paweł Marchewka told Eurogamer at the time. "[But] it's RPG elements rather than RPG game."

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At the time, Techland said it planned for the project to feature co-op multiplayer and single-player.

We've heard little more of the project since — though of course, Techland has been kept busy updating the extremely popular Dying Light, as