Cinematic single-player adventure RPG .curator announced for PS5, Xbox Series, and PC
From Altered Carbon creator Richard K. Morgan.
STRL Games has announced .curator, a cinematic single-player adventure RPG by Altered Carbon creator Richard K. Morgan. It will launch simultaneously for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam. A release date was not announced.
“.curator blends everything we love about games and movies,” said STRTL Games art director Oleksii Plaksin in a press release. “It delivers a cinematic experience that you actively play rather than passively watch. You make the choices, you alter future events—you’re the Curator.”
Plaskin continued, “We are a small studio built around exceptional talent and the determination to deliver something genuinely exciting, something that both our team and players will fall in love with.”
Richard K. Morgan explained, “One of the great things about the games industry is that it’s constantly pushing the boundaries. You know that somewhere there’s always someone working on some cool new stuff you’ve never seen before. So when I got invited into the .curator project by this highly talented bunch of guys, a couple of whom I’d already worked with before, I jumped at the chance. What STRTL are offering here is immersion in real storytelling with real consequences, for both the player and the surrounding characters. In a world of ADHD twitch shooters, violent, unremitting gore, and loud, brightly colored splash and awe, .curator offers something else, something different—a cooler, more thoughtful, more painterly and, ultimately, I think, more humane take on the gaming experience.”
Here is an overview of the game, via STRTL Games:
About
“Across a myriad different ‘braneverse versions of Earth, I have seen Humanity arise, conquer adversity and flourish time after time, only to fail and fall, time after time, wiped out as often as not by its own misguided hand.
“What would you do, what would you give, to stop that final stage, to step in and catch Humanity as it falls? What would you become?
“Make a difference! Join the Curator Corps today!”
.curator is a brand new dynamic adventure game, written by the creator of Altered Carbon, Richard K. Morgan, and brought to life by a seasoned international team under the banner of STRTL Games. Hand-drawn characters and environments, innovative and original gameplay design, a compelling journey to influence and modify the future in a world that responds to the choices you make. .curator is released as an episodic series—purchasing the game grants access to Episode One, with future episodes arriving as separate downloadable content.
Key Features
- Explore a familiar yet uniquely different post-Victorian world to understand and learn its power dynamics.
- Investigate the relics and ruins of a mysterious ancient alien civilization in this world’s past, and make them safe for human hands—if you can!
- Discover the corruption at the heart of the regime and face it down.
- Wield the awe-inspiring technologies of Quantum Sleet modelling to subtly shift events in favor of safer, more humane outcomes and a better future for all.
- Upgrade your physical and mental capabilities with neural overclock, taking your mind and body beyond its previous limits.
- Use stealth to slip unperceived into the corridors of power and back streets of history to work your changes and then leave as if you were never there.
- Bend the Quantum Sleet technology to your will to deal with unexpected random factors and emergency situations.
- Fight, hide, distract, or charm—it’s your choice.
- Get to know your very own onboard AI assistant, C.R.I.S.S.I., consult her on your decisions, take her advice—or don’t.
- Make irrevocable, life-and-death decisions as you carry out your mission, and see the impact of your choices play out in the future you have crafted.
- Deal with the trauma of your past mistakes and crimes as a curator, as you try to find your way to some kind of redemption and hope for a better tomorrow.
It is no easy thing to be a Curator. Will you be equal to the challenge? Only time will tell.
Watch a teaser trailer below. View a set of screenshots at the gallery.