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Hypnos Steps Out of Steam Early Access and Launches in Full Today

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Each answer brings up more questions in this world at the edge of dreams…

The enigmatic Nameless City reveals its secrets today: Hypnos is out of Early Access and officially in 1.0 on Steam! A megastructure exploration adventure set in a world subtly changing according to your actions, Hypnos is finally complete with all 7 chapters after 5 months in Early Access, and is getting a 40% 1.0 launch discount to celebrate.

“I was quite quickly hooked on whatever Hypnos was putting down” — Rock Paper Shotgun

Set in the Maze Chronicles universe, following Redlock Studio’s previous title BLACKSHARD, HYPNOS builds on the series’ formula with an eerie atmosphere, mysterious characters, and featuring an original soundtrack by ALT236, while bringing multiple alternate endings to discover, following the different choices you make during your adventure.

Hypnos is also scheduled for a consoles launch at the end of the year!

About the game: Hypnos is a surreal narrative exploration game, set in Redlock Studio’s Maze Chronicles universe, following their previous title Blackshard. Keeping the same atmospheric focus for the series, Hypnos also weaves branching narratives into the formula. The soundtrack for the game is the creation of ALT236, a French multimedia artist and composer, in a blend of ambient, retro and dreamlike electronic music.

Features:

  • EXPLORATION: wander a unique semi-open world. Find your own way through the Nameless City.
  • BRANCHED DIALOGUES, CHOICES & ALTERNATIVE ENDINGS: Meet the strange inhabitants of the Far Reaches. Your actions influence their destinies.
  • A LAYERED WORLD: Interact with your environment. Transform the materia of dreams and the City with it. Lift the veils that conceal reality.

About Redlock Studio: Redlock Studio is a French company based in Grenoble and Lyon, France, dedicated to bringing the fictional world of The Maze Chronicles series to life. This licence has existed in the minds of its creators for fifteen years, a time spent building worlds and characters; the study of mythologies, religions, novelistic literature and pop culture (with particular influences from H.P Lovecraft, China Miéville, Frank Herbert), scientific fields and role-playing campaigns.

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BLACK LAKE Returns This Halloween, With a New Teaser Dropping October 31

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Cosmic survival horror returns — BLACK LAKE is returning this Halloween.

Polydin Studio is releasing a new teaser on October 31 at 2:00 PM PT, giving a first glimpse at what the team has been working on since the announcement — and teasing a much larger trailer coming in November. The teaser will be available as “Halloween Teaser” in the game’s press kit from October 31 at 2:00 PM PT.

BLACK LAKE is a story-driven survival horror game set inside an orphanage stranded in an endless black ocean. Since its reveal, it has reached over 430,000 views on IGN alone.

The game is available to follow on Steam, and Polydin Studio invites AA horror fans to share the new teaser when it goes live on Halloween.

— Ali Moradi, Game Director, Polydin Studio

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