The Invincible developer Starward Industries has introduced its subsequent challenge: action-adventure anti-combat RPG, Dante’s Ring.
With survival and arcade parts, Dante’s Ring duties you with enduring the “unrelenting forces of nature throughout an surprising volcanic eruption on an eerie, historical, and mysterious island”. It is right here the place you will want to avoid wasting as many misplaced beings as potential.
It is this requirement to avoid wasting folks slightly than blow them up that makes Dante’s Ring “anti-combat”. You may test it out within the teaser beneath:
Dante’s Ring – Teaser Trailer.Watch on YouTube
“On a dangerous journey to the very gates of hell, Dante’s Ring will see gamers step into the function of a daring explorer, striving to outlive and rescue as many lives as potential, whereas mom nature throws every part she has into the Ring of Fireplace,” the developer teased. “Uncovering secrets and techniques buried deep beneath the island’s fiery fury, gamers should face molten lava flows, highly effective earthquakes, and scorching volcanic fires, armed with fireproof armour and stylized retro weapons.
“As if that wasn’t sufficient of a problem, Dante’s Ring will constantly push gamers to navigate life and dying by means of strategic planning and ingenuity, all whereas navigating complicated ethical selections that may form their story. The primary questions are: how a lot are you prepared to sacrifice to avoid wasting yet one more life? Will you descend into the very coronary heart of hell, and are you ready to uncover its secrets and techniques?”
As but, there is no agency launch date, however Steam suggests it is coming “quickly” to early entry in 2025. The crew says the sport will stay in early entry for so long as it takes to create “partaking gameplay and a fascinating story”. The early entry model, nonetheless, can be absolutely playable.
We loved our time with Starward Industries’ prior challenge, The Invincible, saying it’s “a spectacular adaptation of Stanisław Lem’s e book”, however “restricted when it comes to what you are able to do in it, and the impression on the story you might have”. Our Bertie awarded it three stars out of 5.