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Hiya Video games is engaged on one thing utterly new after spending years updating No Man’s Sky. It’s referred to as Gentle No Hearth and is promising a large fantasy world gamers can discover collectively. Director Sean Murray is already promising mountains larger than Everest.
In contrast to its cosmic house exploration sim, Gentle No Hearth is a survival role-playing sport the place gamers can journey throughout a complete planet in search, of, effectively, we don’t know precisely. You seem to play as anthropomorphic creatures in a type of Redwall meets The Lord of the Rings fellowship-style journey throughout an unlimited wilderness.
Right here’s our first look:
Sean Murray is notorious for overpromising and under-delivering at launch, with the preliminary launch of No Man’s Sky underwhelming many gamers, together with by its surprising lack of multiplayer. However years of free updates have since expanded the sci-fi survival sport far past what any followers initially dreamed of, from mech armor to corrupted planets and extra.
We don’t know when Gentle No Hearth will arrive or on what platforms. It actually sounds each bit as bold as what Hiya Video games was teasing gamers with again in No Man’s Sky’s improvement, buying and selling one extremely detailed planet for a complete galaxy’s value, and including the wrinkle of MMO-style multiplayer proper from the beginning.
I’m intrigued even when I don’t actually really feel like I do know what to anticipate from the sport. Surivival sandboxes are massive proper now, and even a fantasy RPG model isn’t utterly completely different from the kind of sport Hiya Video games has already spent years constructing. If it feels as huge and immersive because the trailer seems, nonetheless, I’m excited to ultimately attempt it out. It is going to in all probability be some time although. Murray famous that solely about 12 individuals are engaged on it in the mean time.
Replace 12/7/2023 11:48 p.m. ET: Let’s fucking go!