Developer Ice Code Video games (Arduous West II, Rogue Waters) have introduced Nightmare Frontier, a tactical turn-based technique recreation that is additionally an extraction looter. Suppose “XCOM meets Hunt: Showdown with a sprint of Cthulhu thrown in.” Try the announcement trailer above and the primary screenshots within the gallery beneath.
The builders describe the setup for Nightmare Frontier as follows: “The story of Nightmare Frontier unfolds in an alternate model of Nineteenth-century America, shortly after a mysterious occasion that perpetually modified the world. The road between actuality and an unknown horror has began to fade, and people who stay are left to uncover what really occurred that evening – and what’s behind the titular Nightmare. The streets had been overrun by monsters rising from the darkish abysses of the fear dimension – the survivors referred to as these creatures Dreadweavers. These beings are the bodily embodiment of individuals’s deepest fears. Gamers will step into the footwear of the ringleader, who, regardless of overwhelming terror, finds a likelihood for survival on this new actuality. Main different scavengers, they enterprise deep into town, risking every thing they’ve left in the hunt for loot.”
Nightmare Frontier goals to combine turn-based “gun-n-slash” gameplay with gameplay-altering horror, an attractive risk-reward system, and alluring loot. Wishlist Nightmare Frontier on Steam when you’re .
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