Exclusive: Kingdom Dev Announces Retro Gadgets, Lets You Develop Meticulously Detailed Devices

thegamer.com:

Studio Evil and Marco Bancale, the creators of Kingdom, are teaming up to make a new game called Retro Gadgets that lets you put together working devices in hyper-realistic detail.

You get a few draws that you can pull items out of to both build and decorate your device. Then you can zoom in and attach the internal components needed to make the gadget tick, fine-tuning the electronics. It's a very educational game and one that will require a bit of tinkering to get the hang of if you're not well-versed in tech. However, it will boast Steam Workshop integration, so you can always download someone else's device and pull it apart to find out how it all works.

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In essence, it takes that childhood fascination with technology and lets you enjoy it without the worry of breaking your parent's radio. You can rip everything apart and fiddle with the interior to try and change what the device does, maybe even increasing its efficiency or shrinking it down to pocket-size, or you can break everything with the goal of understanding just how to get a light to turn on. Complex stuff can wait, eh?

It launches later this year in November, though there isn't a concrete date just yet. It boasts buttons, switches, dials, joysticks, and more, with the idea being that you can make any gadget you can think of. With Steam Workshop thrown into the mix, the possibilities are seemingly endless.

If you're interested and want to see what the developers are up to aside from Retro Gadgets, Marco Bancale has teamed up with Dry Cactus Games for a new title called Plasma, dubbed as an "Engineering sandbox" where you can build robots, spaceships, drones, houses, and