A game called Aneurism IV just finished its closed alpha. Here's what I gathered from playing it:
You live in a dystopian city called Aneurism IV, starting out as a prole. You have to do menial tasks to earn credits to buy stuff, and anemnecytes to be able to upgrade your fate (your role in society) in the next life. With enough anemnecytes, you can become a medic, a cop, a cleanser, an illicit items dealer, a banker, or even a cultist who has to sacrifice people to a monolith to create some kind of calamatous event. There is also a prevalent rot in the city in the form of random tumors that appear across the map which cleansers must burn.
The game is based on a set of dead Garry's Mod servers called "Liver Failure" and "Aneurism", all miserable failures with a hideous rainbow vomit aesthetic (based on Cruelty Squad) from what little I have seen and heard. The devs for those projects decided to make a less ugly version of the game using the Godot Engine, and create a full standalone experience. The soundtrack, map design, gameplay, and playermodels are really good, and I have no complaints about any of it. The game is perfectly playable, even in closed alpha, but it is not as polished as it could be.
I got to partake in the last playtest session for the closed alpha, and it was really good. It's very much like a Garry's Mod Half-Life 2 RP server, but with different lore and a different aesthetic and no rules against RDM or other such things. It's more anarchic (aka more fun), and it's far from an easy game, but it doesn't feel like it requires tedious grinding (except when you become a slave and have to push boulders into a fire pit to work off your debt, which is the consequence of dying while you owe anamnecytes). Sometimes you will be earning a living doing laundry, and a crazy guy will commit a mass shooting, so it's really not all that different from living in Brazil.
The game will ship for somewhere between $10-20 USD, and it is NOT a live service game. Dedicated servers will be provided on launch, and there will be multiple official servers, so if you get banned from an official server, you can simply go on another server and continue to play the game. The developers also vow that the game will never become a P2W (pay-to-win) experience.
In truth, the only thing about the game I disliked after having played for 10 hours in total was the loud and shrill acting on the announcements system that often blares, the volume of which cannot be adjusted. Unfortunately, nobody seems to agree with me that a volume slider should be implemented for the announcements, so I'm convinced that this problem will persist unless it's possible to unpackage the game, edit the audio files, and then repackage to have a version without them. This is what the announcements sound like:
Today, a popular HL2-focused Pakistani gaymor just made a video about the game, describing some of the aspects at a surface-level glance.
The game is due to ship on Steam in November, however I wouldn't blame them for delaying the release date as the game does need some work done, and I'm not sure if they have enough time.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2773280/ANEURISM_IV/
EDIT;
OH SHIT I ALMOST FORGOT!
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