FORECLOSED is a narrative-driven action-adventure set in a Cyberpunk world filled with action, suspense, and experimental augmentations. Follow the story of Evan Kapnosin this sleek comicbook styled game as he unraves the conspiracy behind his identity foreclosure. Who is responsibleand why?
Evan Kapnos’identityhas beenForeclosed, stripped of his job, his brain implants and his access tothe city Block-chain, he must now escapethe citybefore his identity and implants are auctioned off.
FORECLOSED combines the playability of video games with the sleek visual aesthetic of comic books. Everything from game-play to cinematics are experienced within the stylistic framework of a graphicnovel. Full screen and comic panel perspectives are seamlessly blended as you move throughout FORECLOSED's Cyberpunk city, uncovering a gripping conspiracy story. Cutscenes are also interactiveand transition smoothly between alternative game-play styles.
Discover and unlock new abilities with an RPG-like skill system. Upgrade your weapon's potential with futuristic customisations and enhance your brain with implants which provide almost super-human abilities!
Utilize experimental augmentations, weapons and tech to fight back against your enemies. Modify your Symbiotic Pistol with Explosive Rounds for maximum damage, or, go silent and equip the Stealth Bullets mod. Learn to control your augmentations to fight opponents and manipulate your surroundings. Acquire superhero-like abilities such as telekinesis to launch your enemies into the air or hurl huge objects at groups. Hack into different systems to create traps or even overload theimplants in your enemies heads.
KeyFeatures
Slick Cyberpunk Action - FORECLOSED is a narrative-driven action-adventure set in a Cyberpunk world filled with action, suspense, and experimental augmentations.
Interactive Comic Book - Everything from gameplay to cinematics are experienced withinthe stylistic framework of a graphic novel to make you truly feel like a comic book hero.
Immersive Narrative - Follow the story of Evan Kapnos, his identity recently Foreclosed, stripped of his job, brain implants and access to the city Blockchain. He must now escapethecity before his identity and implants are auctioned off...
Hi-tech Combat - Modify your Symbiotic Pistol with an assortment of customisations that can be swapped out or even combined.
Augmentation Upgrades - Discover and unlock brain implant abilities with an RPG-like skillsystem
Small Interview
Interview added: 09-06-2022
Stadia GamesDB! (stdb): First of all, can you tell us who are Antab Studios?
Antab Studios (as): Antab Studio was officially founded by Andrea and me (Lara) in 2016. We are based in Milan, Italy.
Our main focus is developing PC and console videogames based on our IPs, trying to explore the media to test its boundaries and opportunities. We have been passionate players since a very young age, but we came from two different professional background: Andrea's career in videogame can be traced back to 2005, while I came from digital art direction, web and graphic design.
As a studio, our first title published was "Gridd: Retroenhanced", a neon arcade-shooter heavily inspired by sci-fi/hackers movies from the '80s and '90s.
stdb: And what will encounter the Stadia players when they fire for the first time FORECLOSED?
as: FORECLOSED is a narrative driven, single player action-adventure set in a cyberpunk comic book, enriched by a noir-ish story, "augmented" high-tech combat skills, and an exclusive sound track.
You play as Evan Kapnos, the "everyday guy" whose daily routine has been completely shocked by the unexpected bankruptcy of his employer, SecurTech Inc., and the consequent foreclosure of his own identity.
Evan must now fight against a mechanical and dehumanized bureaucracy, trying to escape the city before the auctioning.
In the dystopian world of FORECLOSED, citizens have a brain implant forcefully installed at birth. Thanks to this piece of tech, people are constantly connected to the Block-chain, a digital system on which every transaction is taking place. In this way, a person "exists" inside the society, and is able to benefit from its services. Of course this is not coming for free: using the neural implants, every citizen develops a forever-growing debt with the state called "identity debt".
When a person gets hired by a corp., the new employer buys his/her ID debt from the state, letting the worker dilute it over a lifetime. Only very few and very rich people can afford to buy their own "legal" identity back.
In the case of Evan Kapnos, what seems to be just a bureaucratic - yet, paradoxical - inconvenience, quickly turns to be something way bigger than him. While trying to unveil the mystery that surrounds SecurTech's bankruptcy, Evan's implants will reveal to be special, giving him telekinetic powers and letting him interface with a unique experimental weapon, the Symbiotic Gun.
The more challenges Evan will face, the more experience his implants will collect. All the Symbiotic Pistol mods and the combat powers are managable by a
functional and very accessible skills' menu.
In FORECLOSED, the "comic book factor" is not just a visual choice. We have isolated some unique characteristics of comics and turned them into gameplay elements: Evan will move between panels, taking advantage of multiple cameras to look at the same scene from different point of views. Although FORECLOSED can be seen as a 3rd person action-adventure, the gameplay style is going to change several time during the story to let the players immerse themselves in the narration to a deeper level.
Integrated 3D UIs, onomatopoeias, speech bubbles, and smooth panels animations will let you feel like a real comic book hero.
stdb: What have you been inspired by to carry out FORECLOSED?
as: From a professional point of view, we wanted to challenge ourselves as a studio. Making a third person action-adventure game is quite challenging for a small team like ours, but we thought it was the right time to do it.
From a more personal point of view, we actually made a game that we would like to play. Single player action-adventure titles are our favourite, and we also consider oursleves fans of the cyberpunk genre.
Speaking about FORECLOSED's cyberpunk settings, this wasn't just a matter of personal tastes.
We want to think about how the bunch of information and data connected to a single person is becoming more and more important as our society is becoming more and more globalized and digitalized. We have a "legal identity" - so to speak - that doesn't necessarily corresponds to the human being behind it. We sincerelly thought it may be interesting to build a whole gaming experience around this topic, and so we did.
stdb: When it was decided to carry out a FORECLOSED port for Stadia?
as: We have been curious about cloud gaming since the beginning, but it was after FORECLOSED was selected to be part of the Stadia Maker Program, that we have been able to target this platform for a day one release. We are sincerely happy we passed the submission, as Google has partially supported the development letting us face the porting with more confidence.
stdb: How looks like porting a game to Stadia, does it change anything with respect to working on other platforms?
as: Each platform has its own requirements and singular traits. These are not just related to hardware, but also to "intangible" features, like the unique player
experience that a platform aims to shape for its audience.
We originally designed FORECLOSED to be ported on many different hardwares. Of course we did some bug fixing, but we have also learn something new and
enriched our portfolio as a studio. Stadia pleasantly surprised us not only for its good performances, but also because we found the development experience being not so different nor more complex then a non cloud-based platform.
stdb: Is the Stadia Version been developed in house?
as: Yes, we are working on Stadia internally.
We thought it was the best way for us to keep control of all kind of optimizations we needed.
stdb: Will FORECLOSED support any exclusive feature from Stadia (Crowd Choice, State Share...)?
as: With FORECLOSED we preferred to focus more on performances than unique features: we did a lot of work to keep the game at 60 fps at 4K resolution, with seamless loadings, even when multiple comic panels are on screen at the same time.
Merge Games ha creado un juego que técnicamente es muy justo y tiene unas mecánicas relativamente sencillas y básicas. Aun así, han conseguido darle empaque al título y crear un juego que entretiene, y al fin y al cabo, eso es lo que importa.