Flipping from top-down strolling to side-scrolling, Journey File is a brand new motion RPG from developer Kochi Create. Writer PLAYISM revealed plans to launch the perspective-switching recreation on Steam in 2024. You may see how Crystals change your notion of the world within the announcement trailer under. 

In Journey File, a younger woman who misplaced her imaginative and prescient can see because of her cat companion and its Magic Eye Digicam. Seeing by means of the digital camera’s lens and utilizing Crystals permits the woman to alter the angle of the world and uncover the secrets and techniques inside it. Within the vein of video games like Fez, switching views is the important thing to fixing puzzles and progressing.

Because the trailer showcases, Journey File isn’t nearly puzzles. Fight places the motion in motion RPG, as our heroine makes use of her trusty broom to swat enemies into oblivion. It appears to be like like there are some bigger beasts to be careful for, too, together with some sort of funky elephant and an imposing dragon. Like the remainder of the sport, switching the angle can usually provide the higher hand in these battles. 

PLAYISM after Journey File

The reveal of Journey File got here together with a handful of publishing bulletins from PLAYISM right this moment. Petit Depotto’s single-player werewolf recreation GNOSIA is coming to PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Collection X|S, and PC on December 14, 2023. Lizardry’s journey recreation Refind Self: The Character Check Recreation is on the way in which to Steam, iOS, and Android this November. SHIZU KANO UMI’s roguelite Invitation from the Detective Grim Reaper can be on the way in which, as is Touhou Luna Nights. Search for the Touhou effort from Staff Ladybug (File of Lodoss Battle: Deedlit in Marvel Labyrinth) to hit PlayStation 4 and 5 on January 25, 2024. 

We’ll have to attend for extra on the official launch date for Journey File. Within the meantime, PLAYISM shall be holding a playtest survey at its Tokyo Recreation Present 2023 sales space later this month. 

Joseph Luster

Joseph has been writing about video games, anime, and films for over 20 years and loves excited about instruction manuals, discovering obscure platformers, and dreaming up a world the place he really has area (and time) for a retro recreation assortment.

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