The Arcade Crew and 1P2P announce RPG beat ’em up hybrid Young Souls
"A profound story with unforgettable characters and intense combat."
Publisher The Arcade Crew and developer 1P2P have announced Young Souls, a narrative-driven RPG beat ’em up hybrid featuring “intense combat” and “a profound story with unforgettable characters” penned by Matthew Ritter (The Walking Dead game, Nova Phase graphic novels). Platforms and release date were not announced.
Here is an overview of the game, via The Arcade Crew:
About
From The Arcade Crew (Blazing Chrome, Dark Devotion) and 1P2P (Inside My Radio – winner of Ludum Dare 23, Epistory Typing Chronicles) comes a touching and exciting new tale about life, family, adventure, and saving the world: Young Souls.
Gorgeously animated, Young Souls draws you in with its distinct art direction but keeps you playing via a deeply narrative-driven RPG beat-em-up that features clever crossover mechanics. Young Souls features precise gameplay mechanics wrapped inside a profound story with unforgettable characters and intense combat. Penned by Matthew Ritter (The Walking Dead game, Nova Phase graphic novels), Young Souls draws players into a familiar place teeming with nostalgia and adventure where everything is possible.
Jenn and Tristan are two teenagers twins who find themselves suddenly abandoned and without a family until a good-hearted scientist adopts and brings them into his home settled within a small port town. Life in Portsbourgh for Jenn and Tristan proves uneventful. Uneventful, that is, until they uncover a portal to another world which threatens the very existence of life on Earth as we know it. The alternate world is filled with goblins, friends and foes, but Jenn and Tristan are used to going it alone and set out to navigate this strange new world – all was going well, until it wasn’t.
Young Souls features intelligently designed drop-in / drop-out mechanics, meticulously and gorgeously rendered environments to play in, set to a beautiful original soundtrack scored by Joachim Neuville (Inside My Radio). Players can train, collect gold and raid in dozens of dungeons with a variety of weapons, but will have to be careful that Jenn and Tristan don’t meet an early demise.
Key Features
Watch the reveal trailer below. View the first screenshots at the gallery. Visit the official website here.
