New Trailer | Somber Echoes Comes to Console July 8
Independent video game developers Rock Pocket Games and Lav Games announced today its action-adventure sci-fi metroidvania Somber Echoes is coming to PlayStation 5 and Xbox on July 8. Armed with God-given powers, players take on the role of Adrestia, who has been given a second chance to save the universe from her crazed twin sister, with gameplay featuring unique traversal and puzzle elements blended with action packed combat and a rich story.
With a ‘very positive’ rating on Steam, Somber Echoes premiers on console with a fresh new way to experience the game through the new Challenges mode. In the new mode players unlock challenges after completing boss fights and events, designed to extend gameplay and offer skill-based objectives to expand gameplay beyond the story experience.
Somber Echoes Gameplay Features:
A Modern Console Metroidvania: Action packed side-scrolling gameplay, ideal for console players. Powered by Unreal Engine 5 players will embark upon a haunting journey through seven distinct districts, looming with decay, ruin and eerie beauty. Every dark corner hides a story.
Greco-Roman Story: Inspired by Greco-Roman mythos, and sci-fi visuals, players explore a wrecked spacecraft in deep space that is overrun by extra-dimensional horrors.
Multiple Endings: Gameplay actions shape how the story ends, the more players explore and discover the entirety of the ship, the more choices there will be when deciding the fate of the Atromitos.
Challenges Mode: A new way to experience Somber Echoes designed to extend gameplay and provide players with intense, skill-based objectives beyond the core story experience, including boss fight and puzzle challenges with more content planned for subsequent updates.
Somber Echoes is a Greco-Roman inspired sci-fi Metroidvania set within the shell of the spacefaring vessel Atromitos, where divine ruin and cosmic rot intertwine. Awakened by primordial Gods and Goddesses, Adrestia ascends from ash and oblivion to hunt her twin sister Harmonia, now a mad architect of unmaking, through echoing halls and sanctums lost to time. Wield godlike wrath, uncover ancient sins, and carve your legacy into the bones of a dying world.