MGP Studios and Solid9 Studio have announced that a demo for Early Access retro FPS Project Downfall is now available on Steam.
As stated in the press release (via Games Press), the game now has a demo available on Steam. This should not be confused with the Steam Game Festival: Summer Edition, as the demo will remain Steam (rather than only being up during the festival).
Project Downfall is a “retro-style, cyberpunk, reflex-based shooter with adventure elements.” Along with using cover, players must use medication and drugs to give themselves an edge in desperate situations. Dodge bullets for a score multiplier, and use a wide variety of weapons or your “self-medicated kick.”
In addition, the game has also recently been updated to 0.9.12.1. You can find the full rundown on these update here.
You can find an abridged rundown (via Steam) below.
BACKGROUND
The world we have known is coming to an end. The European Union is in disarray, with a new superpower emerging on the horizon: The Novorussian Federation, which already welcomed new members such as Lithuania, Ukraine and Poland.
Enter the first mega-city of Europe: Crimson Tide. The free city of Crimson Tide(the representative free city of this New World Order, showing that both systems can co-exist in harmony, forging a better future for its citizens) was raised as the representative pinnacle of humanity’s achievements on the border of Germany and Poland, in agreement to respect the sovereignty of both the EU/Transatlantic States and Novorussian Federation. But, as history has taught us, this is true only in theory….
Governing parties are not political but rather economical, pointing to a new direction of leading nations. Gone are the days of political parties, replaced by voting with your wallet for the corporate entity which provides everyday life with the highest benefits. Leading corporate entities deal most of the cards, keeping its citizens in check with mandatory medication.
Somewhere in the city, in the Lakk District, a regular middle class citizen is about to start another routine day…
THE GAME
Welcome to your Downfall…
Project Downfall (PDF for short) is a trippy, reflex based shooter with adventure elements. The game is an overall mashup of the the movie „Falling Down” with M.Douglas and the style of „Hardcore Henry” and „John Wick” in a retro (DOOM,Duke3d,Hexen etc) stylised visuals with modern post effects and Dynamic Original SoundTrack.
You start in your apartment after another routine day at the office and your adventure starts from there. The storyline will progress with completion of main missions and branch out depending on various factors (chosen path, mental state, specific choice/interaction/pickup/etc)
You are a regular, middle class citizen. By day, leading your ordinary, rinse-repeat corpo-routine life, with your lovely girlfriend Olga by your side, a well paid job and crib with an amazing view. What more could a guy want?
Yet you feel privileged and as a true socialist you feel you need to give something back…
…By night, you give your contribution to society as a self-proclaimed dealer of justice, dispatching all sorts of scum with extreme prejudice… Or, at least that is what you think…
Main missions will be accessed from your car outside the apartment. In one of the earliest updates after the games Early Access release, the area will be expanded with a freeroam hub which will open up to other parts of the city with optional missions with progression of the game.
With addition of new levels during Early Access, the plot will branch out at certain points leading down alternate paths/levels. Certain levels will only be accessible with certain restrictions (ie depending on timeline, if certain character was discovered/spared/killed and son on). The game will offer multiple endings.
Project Downfall is in Early Access on Windows PC via Steam. A demo is now available.
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