Invincible, the comedian collection created by Strolling Lifeless creator Robert Kirkman, got here again in an enormous method after the success of its animated collection, which launched on Amazon Prime in 2021. It is an ultra-violent but vibrant and inventive story, one which parodies superhero tropes with out outright condemning them.
Skybound Leisure have sought to capitalise on this renewed enthusiasm by saying they’d be engaged on a number of Invincible video games final yr. This tracks—superhero video games are fashionable, and Invincible’s ripe with fascinating characters to select from. So what did they go together with?
A cellular sport—which kinda buries the lede with its cinematic trailer—was the primary announcement. Okay, Marvel Snap did properly, is sensible to comply with up on that. Their first step onto Steam nevertheless flies in from method out of left discipline—a visible novel by the identify of Invincible Presents: Atom Eve, which was first introduced at Invincible’s twentieth anniversary panel throughout this yr’s San Diego Comedian-Con.
Mike Rogers, the artistic director at Skybound, described it as an “superb visible novel expertise, choice-based, [which] places you accountable for Eve … you get to determine whose ass she’s kicking, who she’s relationship.” He then went on to explain it as in “its personal kind of pocket within the multiverse the place you’ll be able to take your Eve in several instructions.”
Whereas visible novels are usually the area of both horror or relationship sims, they share a whole lot of conceptual DNA with comedian books—one thing the trailer exhibits off in what I assume could also be cutscenes that make it into the ultimate sport. There’s even a cool Griftlands-looking fight system with splashes of RPG, promising “totally different powers based mostly on the alternatives you make.”
Atom Eve’s a reasonably important character in each the collection and the comedian guide, a fan-favourite badass in her personal proper who can management subatomic matter to principally do absolutely anything. She’s even acquired her personal one-episode particular forward of Invincible’s second season.
Kirkman additionally revealed the sport will “proceed to increase out the Invincible world”, because it has particulars “that we by no means acquired round to [revealing in the comic], so there’s gonna be facets to her character that you’re going to truly be taught from this sport that you have by no means acquired from the comics.”
So yeah, I am truly on board. It is simply an fascinating path given the kind of photos conjured if you assume ‘Invincible’s getting its personal videogame’. Although given the collection’ genre-subversive nature, I feel it is fairly becoming to plonk one thing bizarre and distinctive on the toes of avid gamers who anticipated one thing extra action-loaded.
Invincible Presents: Atom Eve is about to reach in mint situation to Steam later this yr, with no particular launch date introduced.