Funselektor and Strelka Games have introduced Over the Hill, a brand new trendy driving recreation that takes the elegant presentation established in Artwork of Rally and applies it to offroading.
Formally stylized in all lowercase letters as “over the hill,” this new indie racing recreation will hit lots of the similar notes as 2020’s Artwork of Rally. That earlier racer from Funselektor stood out in a sea of indie video games due to its trendy presentation that stripped again all of the fluff frequent in rally racing video games. Its controls and automobile dealing with nonetheless felt genuine, like a simulation racing recreation, however Artwork of Rally performs from a top-down perspective and lets gamers drive by vibrant tracks. Over the Hill takes a lot of these design tenants and applies them to a MudRunner-style offroad exploration recreation.
In Over the Hill, gamers discover totally different offroading locales linked by portals. It helps single-player and co-op with as much as 4 participant, and Funselektor populated every space with many challenges to finish and hidden collectibles to seek out. It will not all the time be simple to drive from one level to a different, as gamers must account for Over the Hill’s day-night cycle, dynamic climate, and different environmental obstacles that require instruments to beat. Over the Hill performs fairly in another way from Artwork of Rally, however Funselektor founder Dune Casu defined why the studio went this route for a follow-up.
“After having developed a number of video games about motorsport, we wished to go off-track by providing gamers an enormous world to lose themselves at a slower tempo,” Casu mentioned in a press launch. “In a manner, this recreation is just like the expertise I’ve had journeying throughout North America in my trusty camper van. There’s one thing particular about being within the wilderness in the course of nowhere, from the peace, the sounds of nature, and fewer distraction from the civilized world. I hope this recreation can actually drive that feeling dwelling.
Over the Hill will launch on PC through Steam someday in 2025.