Assemble Entertainment and DigiTales Interactive have announced that their 2.5D narrative adventure game, Between Horizons, has scored a launch date. Budding sci-fi detectives can pick up a copy of the game for PC via Steam starting March 25th. For those who’d like to see what the game is all about, a demo is available on Steam that offers a vertical slice of the game, its features, and gameplay.
A new launch day trailer introduces players to the story behind the game. The action takes place aboard the Zephyr, a ship on its way to a distant star. Players are put into the virtual shoes of Stella, the new Chief of Security. She’s tasked with uncovering the conspiracy behind a mysterious incident threatening the ship’s social order.
Features include
- A New Kind of Experience: Between Horizons merges investigative-style gameplay with a branching sci-fi story in an ever-expanding small open-world environment.
- Solving Cases for Yourself: The flexible evidence system lets you confront ship denizens and submit any case with the evidence you’ve connected to it. Everything found on the ship is connected, but figuring out how — that’s the challenge.
- At What Cost?: Underneath the game’s exciting and plausible sci-fi plot lies many thought-provoking problems inviting you to weigh intergenerational responsibility against personal freedom.
- Getting New Perspective: Timeless pixel art mixed with 3D environments and compelling visual effects combine, creating a unique, beautiful art style.
- Failure is Very Much an Option: There are no second chances — submitting wrong solutions means the story will go on, and you’ll have to live with the consequences. A new and improved auto-save system will ensure no going back, as the story branches and endings are based on your decisions.
Check out the Between Horizons Steam page for further details.
