Plus, check out the new trailer for the cosmic horror game Penguin Colony.
“Do you think love can flourish, even on a battlefield?” This is one of the many questions the Metal Gear series asks players to consider through its many cutscenes and Codec Calls. As a player, you’ve most often seen these conversations take place from the perspective of Big Boss or one of his many clones, but a new game from indie studio 14 Hours Productions asks what if you were instead the person behind the screen in these interactions. Announced today during the Story-Rich Showcase, Burn-9 is described as a “reverse Metal Gear”.
As a radio operator, your job is to guide a secret agent, called Dodo, as he tries to save a mission gone horribly wrong. Your interactions with the agent and others take place over a series of radio conversations. Each time, you will have the opportunity to react to situations in different ways, deciding how best to guide your agent and how much information you want to reveal to them and your superiors.
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“Caught between military command and your field agent, the orders you receive may conflict with your own morals and interests,” says editor Fellow Traveler. Judging by this description, Burn-9 looks like he’s trying to accomplish what Lucas Pope did with his breakaway success, Papers, pleasewhich forced players to make important moral decisions through the most mundane gameplay possible. The description continues: “As the pressure mounts, impossible choices will be forced upon you. Information becomes your greatest weapon, and each piece of information you gather presents a new opportunity. What will you share? What should never see the light of day? Who can you trust?”
Burn-9 will come to PC later this year via Steam. A demo of the game will be available as part of the Steam Next Fest, which will take place from June 15 to 22. In other news, Fellow Traveler shared a new trailer for Penguin colonythe next game from Origame Digital, the studio behind the excellent Umurangi Generation. Penguin colony is an adaptation of HP Lovecraft’s novels To the Mountains of Madness And The Shadow outside of time. And look, if the voice of Disco Elysée Narrator Lenval Brown isn’t enough to sell you on this game, so the fact that you witness a multitude of different human factions, including some Nazis, descend into madness through the eyes of a penguin should be enough. Penguin colony will arrive later this year on PC and Nintendo Switch 2, with a demo available now on Steam.
