I do not assume you may extra simply promote me on a sport than by saying it was made by one of many artists behind Celeste, and has music from Disasterpeace, i.e. the composer behind Fez, Hyper Light Drifter, and It Follows. However that is precisely what Neverway is, a horror RPG within the vein of Stardew Valley first announced back in April, again with a pleasant little look-in at yesterday’s Day of the Devs presentation.
Pedro Medeiros, the Celeste artist in query, and programmer/ author Isadora Sophia gave an incredible little rundown of Neverway, explaining that you just play as Fiona, a personality who very like the participant character in Stardew has simply give up her lifeless finish job. She’s making an attempt to start out over on a farm, stay the quiet life, besides she finally ends up having to function a herald for a lifeless god due to some debt she owes. Awkward!
That sort of life does find yourself main in the direction of the necessity to struggle in a basic Zelda-ish 2D motion fight sort of manner, however you do should stability all of that adventuring along with your common life too. Which means farming, paying your mortgage, making mates, perhaps even falling in love. These bonds can result in new fight skills too, one thing I want my very own relationships provided me.
Time works a bit otherwise in Neverway too, as fairly than the day slowly tick tocking away, it strikes from morning, to afternoon, to nighttime if you do issues like eat, sleep, or learn a handbook of some type.
After some time, you will find yourself trying to find the titular Neverway, a “decaying nightmarish actuality that’s slowly leaking into yours.” That is the place you will be taught concerning the sport’s post-apocalyptic world as you repay your debt.
I do know “farming sim however darkish” is not precisely a brand new idea, it is simply that Neverway is doing so with such eyecatching type I am unable to assist however be gained over by it. It appears like there’s an actual sincerity to the life-sim parts versus them simply being slapped into some darkish themes. That is the ticket to my coronary heart actually, little bit of earnestness goes a great distance.
Neverway would not have a launch date simply but, however you may wishlist it on Steam.
