'Submerged' News: New Exploration Combat-Free Game Coming to Various Platforms in August
Combat-free games are a rarity in today's gaming industry. So coming out with an interesting looking, no combat, free exploration game generates some level of interest in the gaming world. This is exactly the case of an upcoming game by Australian game developer Uppercut Games called "Submerged."
A Eurogamer report said that the game is due for release on various gaming platforms in early August. For gamers in the U.S., it will be available for the PS4, the Xbox One and PC on Aug. 4. As for Europe, the PS4 version will arrive the next day while the Xbox one version is set to arrive on Aug. 7.
The game is being developed by a group of developers who used to work with BioShock, another prominent game development group.
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"Submerged" is set in a world that is literally submerged in water. The main playable character is a young girl named Miku. The other non-playable character in the game is her brother who is sick and needs to be taken cared of. Miku has to explore and search for supplies and resources the reaches of the flooded city in order to survive and more importantly, rescue her sick brother. She makes use of a simple boat to go from one place to another.
The game's creative director Ed Orman described the game as follows: "Navigate the flooded city streets by boat, scale the drowned buildings, and use your telescope to scour the city for the supplies needed to save your dying sibling. As you explore the city at your own pace, you encounter the habitat that flourishes in this colourful place and discover hidden objects that piece together the story of a broken world and a broken family."
The game's trailer showed what most reports called a "gorgeous" and "serene" watery world. The game also got an award for Best Audio at the Freeplay Festival for the game's scoring which was done by Jeff Van Dyck, who also worked on the musical score of "Alien: Isolation."
