The Invincible is now available on Steam (store.steampowered.com)
from prograhammingdev@lemmy.prograhamming.com to games@lemmy.world on 06 Nov 2023 16:09
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newcockroach@lemmy.world on 06 Nov 2023 16:51 next collapse

Noice! Btw isnt there a invinceble webseries on prime? Wouldnt that be a copyright infringment as the names are way too similar

prograhammingdev@lemmy.prograhamming.com on 06 Nov 2023 17:00 collapse

Different media types, and the book this game is based on predates the comic of a similar name by about 40 years.

AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world on 06 Nov 2023 19:23 collapse

And it’s not the same story at all.

Also the game seems to be only tenuously linked to the Lem story.

prograhammingdev@lemmy.prograhamming.com on 06 Nov 2023 19:58 collapse

“inspired by” may be a better term for it

AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world on 07 Nov 2023 13:50 collapse

True, that’s probably the best way to put it.

7112@lemmy.world on 06 Nov 2023 18:47 next collapse

Out on GOG as well

www.gog.com/en/game/the_invincible

Moneo@lemmy.world on 06 Nov 2023 19:10 next collapse

Never heard of this game and the studio appears to be new. Anyone want to give me the rundown?

INeedMana@lemmy.world on 07 Nov 2023 09:14 collapse

This won’t be the most exhaustive rundown you could get but since the question is already 14h old, something is better than nothing.

Yes, this is the first game of this studio (or first they came up with themselves). I think the main selling point of the game is that it’s based on a work of Stanisław Lem - writer of science fiction and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology.
I think they even have some sort of exclusivity that in the closest future only they have the rights to publish games officially tied to his works

Schmeckinger@feddit.de on 06 Nov 2023 19:41 next collapse

Very cool that the official gameplay trailer doesn’t contain gameplay.

LiveLM@lemmy.zip on 06 Nov 2023 20:04 next collapse

Really enjoyed the demo of this on Steam Next Fest, will take a look at the full thing

AXLplosion@lemmy.zip on 06 Nov 2023 22:52 next collapse

I almost 2 hours into it, and it’s really good so far. Quite similar to Firewatch in all the good ways.

Edit: just finished it after a couple more hours, really liked it.

dlpkl@lemmy.world on 08 Nov 2023 08:27 collapse

How long was the campaign?

sirico@feddit.uk on 08 Nov 2023 11:41 collapse

Using the maths in ops comment 4 hours how long to beat has it at 6-7.5 hours

dlpkl@lemmy.world on 08 Nov 2023 17:01 collapse

Ah ok not bad for 40$

sirico@feddit.uk on 09 Nov 2023 07:57 collapse

100% Fun>Time

atro_city@fedia.io on 06 Nov 2023 23:14 next collapse

Make choices in a philosophical story that’s driven by science.

I would love to play a story where some scientist is thrust back 8000 or more years back in time and has to guide past humans while finding out the scientist is immortal.

Marsupial@quokk.au on 07 Nov 2023 00:09 collapse

“Yeah, so I’m actually a uh data scientist. I’m gonna be honest I’ve got no idea how to farm or help you guys at all”

RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world on 07 Nov 2023 09:45 next collapse

That’s a very Terran Trade Authority looking piece of art.

JoeKrogan@lemmy.world on 07 Nov 2023 15:13 next collapse

This looks interesting. Has anyone played this and deliver us mars ? How do they compare ?

wombatula@lemm.ee on 08 Nov 2023 09:22 collapse

Wtf is “atompunk” and why does every single sci fi genre have to be called somethingpunk now? Cyberpunk had a reason to be called that, I really don’t see the reasoning behind every other somethingpunk moniker.

DeLift@feddit.nl on 08 Nov 2023 10:03 next collapse

Atompunk is like a specific esthetic. Imagine cold war era, but with the what they thought looked futuristic made real. Think themes around nuclear annihilation, global espionage, alternate-history and retrofuturism.

If you know the Fallout videogames, like that.

GARG@discuss.tchncs.de on 08 Nov 2023 10:09 collapse

Atompunk is the dark version of 50’s era astro-futurism, like in the Fallout games.

The “punk” moniker suffixed onto genres generally implies tones and/or themes one would associate with the punk movement, e.g. anger at a corrupt system, anti-authoritarianism, anarchist ideals, etc.

I’ll agree the usage is oversaturated, though, and is sometimes only used to convey “dystopian”