Here's a narrative sci-fi adventure about exploring a (literally) broken world
A new narrative sci-fi adventure RPG called Sky of Tides will release later this year, having players explore a world called Numen where a looming war threatens to upend protagonist Rin's life.
It's an atmospheric, isometric viewpoint world that seems to rely on both the tropes of classic isometric RPGs and the language of branching visual novels.
To me, though, Sky of Tides looks a bit like a visual novel got real high on Disco Elysium. Which is pretty welcome—I'm interested in seeing if the gameplay formula pioneered by Disco Elysium carries something interesting forward when divorced from its wildly original setting.
You'll play as Rin D'Lorah, the daughter of a missing researcher who discovers a conspiracy. She'll then go on an adventure to find her father and meet all kinds of weird people across the broken planetoids that were once the world Numen.
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