Studio Lifeforms has announced ETRE, a single-player third-person action adventure Metroidvania with graphics inspired by the science fiction of 1970s and 1980s European graphic novels. It will be available for PC via Steam. A release date was not announced.
Here is an overview of the game, via Studio Lifeforms:
About
ETRE is a third-person action adventure set inside Orbis, a planet-scale alien mind on the brink of awakening. Explore an interconnected labyrinth of luminous architecture, solve spatial puzzles, and engage in fluid combat as you search for your lost love and decide what this new intelligence will become.
Drawn across the stars by a mysterious signal, Xyle enters Orbis in search of Atel, his vanished soulmate. A post-human society called the Etre has grown within the World Mind’s body, split between two factions who each want to use Orbis for their own ends.
Journey through distinct biomes inspired by the visionary science fiction of 1970s and ’80s European graphic novels. Uncover a network of living machines known as Angel Tech, encounter the rogue Living Geometry spawned by their corruption, and piece together the history of a world whose awakening has already begun.
Your choices and discoveries shape what Orbis will become: a living world brought back into balance, a transcendent god-mind, or something far more terrifying.
Enter the Cosmic Mind
- Traverse a vast, interconnected world within an alien mind. Acquire new abilities that transform how you move through Orbis and open paths through places you thought you understood.
- Scan organisms, structures, and machines to reveal hidden functions, reconstruct lost histories, and gradually understand the intelligence taking shape around you.
- Encounter Anomalies, Pattern Beings, and hostile Living Geometry. Learn their behaviors, turn the environment to your advantage, and survive fluid encounters woven into the ecology of the world.
Save the One You Love
Follow in the footsteps of Atel, your soulmate and navigate the competing visions of Mal and Weyl, two Etre leaders with incompatible plans for Orbis.
Piece together a story about love, awakening, and responsibility as you follow Atel’s echoes and map your entanglement with the World Mind.
Watch the announcement trailer below. View a set of screenshots at the gallery.