Tales of Kenzera: ZAU dev's next game is a psychological horror all about the entertainment industry's dark secrets

Earlier this year, Palworld developer Pocketpair announced their intent to get into games publishing utilizing immoderate of that Scrooge McDuck-size swimming excavation of wealth they've acquired implicit the past year. They already had a crippled signed up too, from Tales of Kenzera: ZAU developer Surgent Studios, and contiguous said indie dev has offered a tiny tease of a uncover astatine their upcoming intelligence fearfulness crippled Dead Take.

For present the crippled is mostly wrapped successful mystery, but it's seemingly each astir taking a look astatine the "darkest secrets" that lurk underneath the "glittering facade" that is the amusement industry. You'll measurement into the relation (pun intended) of an histrion exploring a mansion to "piece unneurotic the communicative of however acold a almighty enforcement volition spell to seal his legacy." There's object-based puzzles to solve, and you'll request to edit video clips you find to fig retired what happened there. No afloat trailer conscionable yet though.

In a connection Surgent Studios laminitis Abubakar Salim said that they're "being secretive" astir the crippled "for a reason," continuing connected to accidental that the "subject substance of this crippled is delicate, and it hits adjacent to home. When it comes out, and it won't beryllium agelong until it does, I privation players to think, 'I can't judge they really did this.'"

For immoderate context, earlier getting into crippled development, Slim was an actor, having appeared successful Ridley Scott's Raised by Wolves and Napoleon, House of the Dragon, and connected the video crippled beforehand helium was besides Assassin's Creed Origins' Bayek, arsenic good arsenic Tales of Kenzera's titular Zau. One tin lone ideate the stories immoderate histrion moving connected specified large names mightiness have.

Release day omniscient it's supposedly launching this year, but for present you tin wishlist the crippled connected Steam.