Peeling the Layers

Onion Video games’ sport director Yoshiro Kimura has revealed that the indie studio’s subsequent launch will launch in some unspecified time in the future in 2023. The tidbit was dropped in an interview rolled out this previous weekend to subscribers of “The Secret Onion Cellar” e-newsletter.

Little has been revealed concerning the new launch since its preliminary announcement again in 2020. We do know that the mysterious launch is a sandbox RPG that can little question characteristic the stylized visuals and thought-provoking narratives synonymous with Onion Video games hits corresponding to 1997’s Moon: Remix RPG Journey and 2018’s mournful shmup Black Chicken. Additionally, in accordance with Kimura, “kids” will kind the central theme of the brand new journey.

In an extra letter to the followers, as printed by Gematsu. Kimura candidly speaks of the stress and turbulence of being an indie studio, detailing a few of the psychological and bodily pressures of working underneath funds and inside limitations, whereas being fully uncertain as as to whether your launch will in the end hit it huge on launch. Kimura notes that it is usually a really costly course of, that may take its toll on the bills you’ve apart for fundamental residing and different day-to-day prices.

“Indie sport builders are principally weird creatures which are continually operating, laughing, and taking part in chess, all whereas bleeding profusely,” concludes Kimura, in a sometimes colourful and visceral assertion, earlier than signing off delightfully as “Your Indie Sport Making Uncle”.

Black Chicken is offered now on PlayStation, PC, and Nintendo Swap, and is effectively value your time.

Onion Video games’ new sandbox RPG due out in 2023 [Gematsu]