Publisher 663 Games and developers from the Chinese studio Shadowlight Sanctuary announced joint project – role-playing detective Kill the Shadow, combining two-dimensional characters and three-dimensional environments.
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Kill the Shadow takes place in a fictional post-war city with an oriental flavor. Players will take on the role of detective Ah’Guang, who is investigating a series of mysterious murders.
In his search for the truth, the hero will be assisted by the Shadow, a strange creature that follows him relentlessly and can read into other people’s memories and reproduce traces of the dead.
“Find the lost memories of a city and piece together the story of its division ten years ago. Uncover the truth – kill, convict, or kiss (?) the mastermind behind it all,” the authors describe the available options.
Players will be free to choose how to level up three main characteristics (strength, spirit, charm) and methods of investigation: be it psychological pressure, brute force or deduction.
The sources of inspiration are not disclosed, but Kill the Shadow looks like The Last Night, Replaced and other platformers with a combination of 2D and 3D, and the main character seems to be inspired by Disco Elysium – also an alcoholic detective with cockroaches in his head.
Kill the Shadow is expected to release sometime during the rest of 2024 exclusively for PC (Steam). The Valve service page currently only states support for English and Chinese (traditional and simplified).
Announcement trailer
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