Idiot’s Idea is a Polish studio headed by Jakub Rokosz, previously senior quest designer on The Witcher 2 and three at CD Projekt Purple. Relations should nonetheless be good between them, since Idiot’s Idea is at the moment engaged on the remake of the primary Witcher recreation, with CDPR having “full inventive supervision.”
As well as, Idiot’s Idea has an unique recreation within the works, which it just lately revealed. The Thaumaturge is an isometric RPG set in a model of early twentieth century Warsaw through which spirit beings referred to as salutors are summoned and tamed by occultists for their very own ends. We’ll be taking part in one such salutor-botherer, who might be seen within the gameplay trailer commanding a few spirits, in addition to getting in fistfights and jogging round numerous elements of Russia-controlled Warsaw.
These spirits are a bukavac—the eyeless four-armed one with all of the hooks and chains—and an upyr—the pleasant wanting skull-faced chap with the fur hat, who is outwardly the ghost of a vengeful nobleman.
The salutors might be managed in The Thaumaturge’s turn-based fight, the place they’ve a wide range of skills to contribute. The bukavac, “A hideous monstrosity that embodies punishment for atrocious crimes,” may cause injury with a Syrmian Whisper or a Howl assault, in addition to inflicting a debuff referred to as Struggling that causes attrition injury. It additionally has a Bloody Marriage ceremony ability that causes extra injury the extra enemies are affected by Struggling. They’re principally Pokémon, solely actual fucked-up.
The Thaumaturge additionally guarantees to have investigation mechanics, choice-and-consequence ethical selections, and the flexibility to develop the principle character in numerous methods that can open up completely different choices for fixing issues.
Just like the Witcher remake, The Thaumaturge is being developed in Unreal Engine 5, which ought to assist its closely researched recreation of Warsaw look fairly. At the very least, till the undead flip up.
Idiot’s Idea beforehand assisted Larian as a help studio on Divinity: Unique Sin 2 and Baldur’s Gate 3, in addition to releasing an RPG referred to as Seven: The Days Lengthy Gone in 2017. This time the studio is working with 11 Bit, the creator of Frostpunk, who’s appearing as writer for The Thaumaturge. No launch date has been introduced but, however it’ll be obtainable on Steam (opens in new tab), GOG (opens in new tab), and the Epic Video games Retailer (opens in new tab).
