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Image credit: Tom van den Boogaart / Sokpop Collective
The quality of Bernband during past night's PC Gaming Show had a fewer of america astatine RPS clicking our fingers and pointing astatine our monitors yelling: "Bernband! Bernband!" This remake of the champion sci-fi walking sim of 2014 has been successful the works for a while. Creator Tom van den Boogaart has dipped successful and retired of moving connected the alien wanderer, often switching absorption to different projects specified arsenic Grunn. But present it looks similar we are erstwhile again getting a trickle of saccharine extraterrestrial wanderlust. Here's a trailer.
"Bernband is simply a sci-fi exploration sim acceptable successful a bustling alien metropolis," says the Steam page. "Wander the streets astatine your leisure. See the sights, from dodgy dive bars to sprawling mega-marts. Discover concealed areas, oregon bent retired with the locals! There are nary missions oregon timers; your lone extremity is to instrumentality a stroll."
That deficiency of goals and objectives puts it erstwhile again firmly into walking simulator turf, but if it shares adjacent a spot of the atmospheric richness of the archetypal walkabout, that is perfectly grand. When Bernband archetypal appeared, it offered a crowded small satellite of alien barflies, nighttime clubs, precocious walkways, creepy alleys, xeno churches, schoolhouse classrooms, and plentifulness of elevators connecting it each together.
It was a fantastic metropolis to get mislaid in, and a reminder that simply dandering astir a unusual spot tin beryllium breathtaking without having to cod anything, oregon adjacent talk to anyone. As Alice O enactment it astatine the time, it's "about the state of being unsocial successful a crowd, the joyousness of sound washing implicit you and filling you, and the pleasance of wandering with nary intent beyond wanting to person clip to yourself and spot immoderate absorbing things."
The archetypal game's maker, Van den Boogaart, has periodically shared immoderate of his ongoing enactment connected the remake. But it would often submerge again for immoderate clip arsenic helium worked connected different things. After all, the creator is simply a subordinate of the busiest pack of Dutch crippled tinkerers successful the world, the Sokpop Collective (who are besides credited arsenic helping connected this remake). Sokpop are a benignant of romanticist perfect of the games manufacture - a crowd-funded independant pack of mates who person made implicit 100 games aft announcing their program to merchandise a caller plaything each 2 weeks. Their galore many works see colony gathering paper crippled Stacklands, and tiny controller-friendly RTS King Pins.
No merchandise day for Nu-Bernband yet, but we volition enactment ever vigilant. Bernband. Bernband!
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