The Heart Machine is working overtime. The studio is preparing for release Hyper Light Breakeris a massive online adventure game, and it revealed another title in development and coming soon: Owner(s). It is planned to be shot PC and consoles in 2025.
Owner(s) It’s a twitchy side-scroller set in a sci-fi city of interdimensional horror. In its reveal trailer, it looks absolutely gorgeous – diabolical, dramatic and hyperchromatic.
Owner(s) It’s set in a quarantined metropolis overrun by otherworldly forces, featuring 3D backgrounds and hand-painted characters covered in a sick VHS sheen. Combat consists of lots of battles with found objects, sliding down long corridors and swinging a grappling hook, with more weapons unlocked and upgraded as experience progresses.
Owner(s) Starring Luke, the lead, and his troubled colleague, Rehm. In order to survive, they must learn to live together and together they are on a mission to discover the source of the disaster that is destroying this city. There’s an open-ended story with multiple paths to travel and a roster of characters to meet, with each new story of destruction shedding light on a larger mystery.
Every intersection scene Owner(s) the announcement trailer could be a screensaver and the combat looks super smooth. Developed by Heart Machine and published by Devolver Digital.
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