Idiot’s Idea is a Polish studio headed by Jakub Rokosz, previously senior quest designer on The Witcher 2 and three at CD Projekt Crimson. Relations should nonetheless be good between them, since Idiot’s Idea is at the moment engaged on the remake of the primary Witcher sport, with CDPR having “full artistic supervision.”
As well as, Idiot’s Idea has an unique sport within the works, which it not too long ago revealed. The Thaumaturge is an isometric RPG set in a model of early twentieth century Warsaw by which spirit beings known as salutors are summoned and tamed by occultists for their very own ends. We’ll be taking part in one such salutor-botherer, who will be seen within the gameplay trailer commanding a few spirits, in addition to getting in fistfights and jogging round varied elements of Russia-controlled Warsaw.
These spirits are a bukavac—the eyeless four-armed one with all of the hooks and chains—and an upyr—the pleasant wanting skull-faced chap with the fur hat, who is outwardly the ghost of a vengeful nobleman.
The salutors will be managed in The Thaumaturge’s turn-based fight, the place they’ve quite a lot of talents to contribute. The bukavac, “A hideous monstrosity that embodies punishment for atrocious crimes,” could cause injury with a Syrmian Whisper or a Howl assault, in addition to inflicting a debuff known as Struggling that causes attrition injury. It additionally has a Bloody Wedding ceremony talent that causes extra injury the extra enemies are affected by Struggling. They’re principally Pokémon, solely actual fucked-up.
The Thaumaturge additionally guarantees to have investigation mechanics, choice-and-consequence ethical selections, and the power to develop the primary character in numerous methods that may open up totally different choices for fixing issues.
Just like the Witcher remake, The Thaumaturge is being developed in Unreal Engine 5, which ought to assist its closely researched recreation of Warsaw look fairly. At the least, till the undead flip up.
Idiot’s Idea beforehand assisted Larian as a help studio on Divinity: Authentic Sin 2 and Baldur’s Gate 3, in addition to releasing an RPG known as Seven: The Days Lengthy Gone in 2017. This time the studio is working with 11 Bit, the creator of Frostpunk, who’s performing as writer for The Thaumaturge. No launch date has been introduced but, but it surely’ll be out there on Steam (opens in new tab), GOG (opens in new tab), and the Epic Video games Retailer (opens in new tab).
