Indie dev Antonio Freyre is at it once more making stealth video games, and has launched the pleasant No Solar to Worship, to the world. On this little stealth indie issues have very clearly gone unhealthy for humankind, and also you’re an individual charged with making it worse for whoever’s using you one sabotage, homicide, and assassination at a time.
No Solar to Worship is a stealth sport the place you are a single particular person infiltrating bigger teams, one the place a meter exhibits how a lot noise you make and the way seen you’re: Your stance and motion are as vital as gentle and sound. Missions have a number of methods to finish, with a clock to beat on subsequent performs and a tough mode if you wish to “get your ass kicked.”
“A brief, minimalist stealth-action sport concerning the significance of artwork. We painted the sky ashen grey. Burned the heavens to starve one another. Now we stroll an countless cemetery of remorse,” is how developer Freyre describes it. Which I might say—as somebody who reads a complete lot of sport descriptions—is a good sport description. PC gamer’s Wes Fenlon spoke with unbiased developer Antonio Freyre earlier this 12 months about his love for Stealth video games. That is his third one in as a few years.
“In my earlier two stealth video games, I used to be attempting to suit sure style expectations and sure tropes, as a result of I used to be attempting to ‘make a stealth sport.’ Now I am simply attempting to make a very good sport, which occurs to have stealth in it to serve the story and message I need to share. This mind-set liberated me and allowed me to make [No Sun to Worship] extra unique but in addition extra enjoyable and polished,” stated Freyre on the time.
No Solar to Worship is actually an appealing-looking sport, with a form of post-nuclear-war surroundings the place not solely is Earth poisoned by weapons, however we’re nonetheless combating one another over what’s left. Oh, and aliens have clearly come to invade our little world as well. It is wealthy with heavy lighting and peculiar glowing but-eyed helmets for the masked protagonist to slink round and shoot at.
No Solar to Worship is six ranges lengthy, every playable on a more durable problem as nicely. It is actually obtained the vibes to hold off that size, and the atmospheric tone of the trailer dialogue and world description make me need to dive proper in. In reality, I in all probability will—let me fetch my Steam Deck.
Yow will discover No Solar to Worship on Steam, the place it is $8, or 20% off till September 22. It is also obtainable as a part of a bundle with Freyre’s different stealth and indie video games for $16.50 for a restricted time, which is 50% off.