Developer Salient Games and publisher Tesseract Studios have announced Songs of Rats, an "indie dark role-playing game inspired by choose-your-own-adventure books". It's coming to PC sometime early next year.
Songs of Rats takes place in a cluster of broken-down spaceships and space stations "crushed and combined into one massive structure" known as the Wreckage. Bizarrely, due to "advanced self-repair technology", the Wreckage has become a haven for its inhabitants.
You must venture into the darkest, deepest corners of this "dangerous yet livable labyrinth" in order to uncover "the dark secrets of fallen civilizations", together with a team of fellow explorers that will help you to navigate the Wreckage's many dangers.
As a roguelike, Songs of Rats will feature an ever-changing world, along with a range of "strange, human and inhuman enemies" with which to do battle. It wouldn't be much of an eldritch superstructure without them, after all.
Exploring will not just get you combat encounters with horrors; it'll also net you bonuses that you can use to upgrade your character, making you better-equipped to survive the dangers of the Wreckage.
Largely speaking, Songs of Rats tells its story through text and evocative lo-fi...
