Dread Delusion is likely one of the video games I am most excited for: a lo-fi, indie tackle a Morrowind-style bizarre fantasy world, the medieval societies clinging to a discipline of asteroids slowly orbiting a small pink star. That world simply bought a little bit bit weirder due to the addition of Dread Delusion’s first new main area since launch, the Clockwork Kingdom.
The bones of this place have been right here since Dread Delusion’s early entry launch: an empty island with a novel, wintery look and its personal soundtrack. Developer Beautiful Hellplace wised as much as the antics of boundary breakers like me leaping to the island with magic, and moved the dominion’s residence island out for the ultimate launch, forcing gamers to get there “the correct method.”
The Clockwork Kingdom is a police state, you see, and the one method in is to smuggle your self throughout the hole between asteroids with the assistance of the principality’s sole licensed service provider. It is a terrific, tactile little bit of worldbuilding that basically helps promote how remoted and alien this place is, even in comparison with Dread Delusion’s different surreal locales just like the nation of flesh-eating zombies over on the opposite aspect of the Oneiric Isles.
Dread Delusion continues to be an RPG that punches nicely above its weight class—this open world is small however extremely dense, whereas its lore and historical past give this plausible sense of a world current outdoors the small area explorable in within the sport. I’ve solely seen a little bit little bit of the Clockwork Kingdom up to now, however I’ve liked immersing myself on this place.
It additionally looks as if we’re getting near the sport’s full launch—except there’s been a change of plans, the primary quest requires you to trace down three key people, and the Clockwork Kingdom replace noticed the addition of that third essential bizarre man. Beautiful Hellplace has teased a sojourn right down to the floor of Dread Delusion’s ruined world, under the asteroid kingdoms, and I am wanting ahead to going there as soon as the sport ultimately leaves early entry.
Till then, you possibly can wishlist Dread Delusion or test it out in early entry for your self on Steam—the sport is at the moment on sale for $15, 25% off a normal $20.