Out now, Neyasnoe is made by the folks behind It’s Winter
What are you doing later?
Bit of a night out in a bleak post-Soviet city, maybe?
Chat with a back-alley cyborg tech?
Catch a poetry reading?
Have a blood pressure test?
Contemplate your empty existence?
All this and more awaits you withNeyasnoe, the new first-person explorer from the creators ofIt’s Winter.
Yes, I’m being vague on purpose.
Like with It’s Winter, it takes time to figure out what Neyasnoe even is.
What are its rules?
What am I doing?
Wait why do I have stats, and what do they mean?
Why can I do all these things?
What changes if I do this or that?
Is this person telling the truth?
I still don’t have all the answers, and that’s a good feeling.
Neyasnoe conjures a powerful mix of emotions.
And maybe our character’s life isn’t that different from my role as the player.
And maybe that’s a problem.
Oh no, maybe that’s really a problem.
The world has a nice surreal edge.
Conversations with strangers can be dreamy and existential, magnified in contrast to the mundane chat with others.
The city itself feels corrupted and dying too.
It might also be set in the future, amplifying quite how old and worn-down everything feels.
I think it looks great.
It’s specific enough to feel real, abstract enough to be nowhere, anywhere, a dream.
you’re able to turn the low-res pixellation filter off if you want, but I didn’t.
Oh, and Neyasnoe has a feature I now want from any video game with a nightclub: autodancing.
Horrible, and very good.
Neyasnoe is out nowon Steamfor Windows and Mac, priced at 8.50/9.775/$9.99.
