Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene modified all the course of gaming in 2017 with the discharge of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, now identified nonsensically as PUBG Battlegrounds. (Plunkbat perpetually.) With out it–for good or sick–we could not have Fortnite, one of the vital profitable video games ever. PUBG isn’t doing too badly itself, with greater than half one million folks enjoying no less than as soon as on daily basis. Now, Greene is hoping to revitalize the survival style with Prologue, developed over the past 4 years and immediately revealing a shock free open beta.
Paying homage to video games from the survival sim heyday, Prologue drops its gamers in a woodland cabin and challenges them to seek out their technique to a climate station, randomly positioned on the sprawling 8-by-8km map. Alongside the way in which, you’ll be bombarded by climate extremes and hungry wildlife, whereas needing to maintain your self fed, watered and heat. Which, whereas definitely a well-known premise in case you performed The Lengthy Darkish or The Forest, is aiming for a distinct emphasis. Prologue seems to be aiming for the extremes of isolation, a way of agoraphobic loneliness in its procedurally generated maps.
Plus, in fact, this comes with the pedigree. Greene could have moved on from PUGB, therefore the title now solely containing his nickname’s initials, however PlayerUnknown Productions comes with a whole lot of expectation. After which a whole lot of complicated rhetoric about “metaverses” and the like. However if you wish to discover out precisely what the sport’s about, nicely, you may proper now! Without spending a dime!
Out there on each Steam and Epic, the Prologue: Go Wayback! playtest allows you to obtain and play the sport forward of its Early Entry launch supposed for later this yr. To get it on Steam, head to the shop web page (the “go wayback” title, which hopefully isn’t everlasting, no less than makes it doable to seek for) after which click on on the “Request Access” button beneath the demo hyperlink. You’ll immediately get in, and can discover the sport out there to put in on the prime of your Steam library. I’m downloading it as I sort.
