What occurs when a few Legobricks resolve to chase their goals of exploring house? You’ll discover the reply in Lego Voyagers, the subsequent brick-based journey from the gifted group at Mild Brick Studio.
Mild Brick has all the time been impressed by the Lego brick and the limitless methods it connects us – by storytelling, creativity, and the easy pleasure of constructing. Their debut title, Lego Builder’s Journey, invited gamers to create with bricks. With Lego Voyagers, they’re taking issues one step additional: this time, you don’t simply construct with the bricks, you grow to be one.
Two Bricks are Higher than One
In Lego Voyagers, you’ll tumble, bounce and snap collectively as you discover a playful universe – and as a result of bricks are all the time stronger when linked, all the expertise has been designed as a cooperative journey. Whether or not on-line or facet by facet in sofa co-op, you and a good friend will clear up difficult puzzles collectively, combining numerous considering and the magic of teamwork to progress.
As a result of Lego Voyagers is totally cooperative, the group strived to make it as simple as potential to share. That’s why the sport features a Good friend’s Move – permitting you to ask a good friend without cost. For Mild Brick, it’s a easy extension of their perception that play is greatest skilled collectively.
A Residing, Buildable Universe
The world of Lego Voyagers is constructed from the identical collection of Lego bricks you’d discover in actual life (1,694,756 to be actual – the devs counted) – which means each construction you see may, in idea, be recreated with precise bodily Lego bricks. This brick-built universe encourages curiosity and creativity with each tumble and snap. There’s hardly ever only one answer to a puzzle, as a substitute gamers are inspired to suppose outdoors of the field, experiment with totally different approaches, and uncover stunning new outcomes. Relatively than discovering one straight reply, it’s extra about having fun with the sort of open-ended play that the world of the Lego model naturally conjures up.
Storytelling With out Phrases
One of the crucial distinctive elements of Lego Voyagers is the way it communicates. The sport tells its story fully with out dialogue (human dialogue, that’s). As a substitute, the story depends closely on visible cues, evocative music and environmental storytelling to information gamers. In Lego Voyagers, Mild Brick makes a degree of visually establishing concepts earlier than they’re wanted, in order that when gamers encounter a puzzle or narrative beat, it feels acquainted and truthful. This cautious layering retains the expertise comprehensible with out phrases whereas nonetheless leaving loads of room for interpretation.
Composer Henrik Lindstrand – who additionally scored the critically acclaimed Lego Builder’s Journey – returns as soon as once more with a handcrafted soundtrack. This time, he expands his devices to incorporate his childhood Casio keyboard, giving the music a nostalgic coming-of-age really feel. In Lego Voyagers, Lindstand works with recurring themes or leitmotifs that comply with the characters and occasions, giving gamers a way of familiarity and helps them join emotionally with the story.
Lego Voyagers invitations gamers to replicate, experiment, and type their very own understanding of the story. The sport asks open questions on friendship, connection, and how we navigate challenges collectively. Mild Brick hopes these feedback spark conversations lengthy after the controller is about down. What does it imply to remain linked? How can we help one another when the trail forward isn’t all the time clear? The group doesn’t wish to dictate the solutions – and the sport encourages gamers to search out their very own.
Trying Forward
Lego Voyagers is playful, heartfelt, and true to the Lego model. It’s a recreation about friendship, creativity and most of all – connection – constructed on a model that has been inspiring gamers for generations. Lego Voyagers is out now! We will’t anticipate gamers on the Xbox Sequence X|S and Xbox One to set out on this journey collectively. Seize a good friend, convey your curiosity and see what occurs when a few bricks attain for the celebrities.
LEGO® Voyagers
Annapurna Interactive
From the makers of LEGO® Builder’s Journey comes a brand new 2-player co-op journey about friendship and play. When two buddies make it their mission to rescue an deserted spaceship, they embark on a journey past their wildest goals, in the end studying the worth of being linked.
● Expertise what it feels wish to be a LEGO brick. Tumble, bounce, snap collectively, and construct your approach by wealthy brick worlds.
● Unravel a poetic, non verbal narrative, set in lovely brick constructed environments, supported by an atmospheric soundtrack.
● Cooperatively clear up the sport’s many challenges and uncover how two bricks are higher than one. Play domestically on the identical display screen, or on-line.
● Invite a good friend to affix your journey without cost with the Good friend’s Move. So long as one among you owns LEGO Voyagers, you may each play the total co-op expertise collectively.
LEGO Voyagers asks open questions on constructing friendships, sharing goals, and giving house.
It reminds us that whereas taking part in and being inventive is for all shapes and sizes, it’s all the time higher once you share it with a good friend.