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Primordia devs go to a terrible carnival with Strangeland in MayA surreal new adventure game from Wormwood and Wadjet Eye
A surreal new adventure game from Wormwood and Wadjet Eye
A few years later than planned,Primordiadevelopers Wormwood Studios are returning with a new murky adventure game. TheirStrangelandwill launch on the 25th of May, publishers Wadjet Eye announced yesterday, inviting players into a surreal and nightmarish carnival with far too many awful clown faces for my liking. Have a peek in the trailer below.
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Strangeland launch trailer
So there you are, a fella in a straitjacket, who wakes in a terrible carnival that’s home to a woman who keeps throwing herself down a bottomless well, strange folks including a telepathic starfish and a living mermaid, and a terrible darkness. Sounds like a place for some story-o-puzzling alright.
Strangeland will also have developer commentary and an “annotation mode” to help explain references and metaphors and such, if you want ‘em. Writer Mark Yohalemhas saidit’s “a map from my childhood wonders and fears to adulthood’s responsibility, regret, and recognition” and that the artist put a lot of himself into it too, so I think they really want to be understood.
The project has taken a lot longer than once planned, and grown a lot more. Back in March 2018, Wormwood explained ina blog postthat they’d had the idea in May 2017 for a shorter game built partially from scraps of other projects, both ongoing and abandoned. And then it grew. At that point in 2018, they said Strangeland was “nearly done”. Three years later, it’s about to come out.
Strangeland is coming to Windows viaSteamand GOG on May 25th.
