Contributed by LordTBT at 3:00AM GMT, 3 April 2018



Soma Games has released an early look at Escape the Gloomer gameplay on its YouTube channel!

Seemingly, you play AS The Gloomer, typing commands to the rat based on textual prompts that appear on the screen.

If a command is successful, a new prompt, read aloud by a narrator, appears and the game continues. Of note, Stormfin is mentioned in the sample game text ... how will he be involved?

The official description is as follows:

Escape the Gloomer is a modern take on the old-school text adventures but with features like surround sound, voice activation and other modern amenities. We're using the term "Conversational Adventure (tm)" The intended experience is for something like playing your car, or talking to Alexa or Siri. Imagine the glory days of radio theatre but now you get to interact with the story and determine what happens next... It frankly doesn't make for the best video preview but we wanted folks to at least get the sense of what we're working on here.

If you're unfamiliar with this genre or style of game, another term for it is "interactive fiction."

For gaming history buffs, designer Scott Adams released the first-ever text adventure game, Adventureland, in 1978.

"[Escape the Gloomer] is shaping up to be the best game I personally have ever been involved with, even when compared to Spider-Man and Fantastic Four of the Marvel Questprobe series! It will be especially fun for readers of Redwall and also those who love a good Conversational Adventure (tm) game," Adams said recently.

That's quite the statement. Escape the Gloomer is scheduled to be released in the fourth quarter of this year.

Watch the gameplay video below!

Escape the Gloomer Gameplay Sample





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