Two years after it was unceremoniously faraway from Steam, the mostly-monochromatic first-person stealth-action recreation Betrayer has returned to life on GOG—and it is free, too.
Set within the early days of colonial America, Betrayer begins with gamers washed up on the shores of what’s now Virginia, alone and unprovisioned. A brief path results in a close-by fort, which is oddly deserted aside from the presence of unusual, barely disturbing figures of ashes. The encompassing panorama is crammed with Native American warriors and Spanish conquistadors, all of them hostile; the one non-enemy within the recreation, the Maiden in Crimson, is clearly working by some problems with her personal.
The default monochrome-and-blood-red colour palette was putting, however sadly Betrayer labored higher as an idea than an precise recreation, and was type of uneven and tedious general. It wasn’t dangerous, it simply fell in need of its ambitions: “I wish to have a good time its creativity and commend the dedication to a novel imaginative and prescient, however the high quality of Betrayer’s concepts solely makes their execution extra disappointing,” government editor Tyler Wilde wrote in his 62% overview.
For causes unknown, Betrayer was yoinked from Steam in 2021, an unlucky however not unusual destiny. However now, with out warning (or any type of context in any respect) it has been resurrected on GOG, and it’s very free. And it does not seem like a time-limited giveaway: It is simply straight-up free, take it and go, have a pleasant day. For the file, it is nonetheless not again on Steam—it’s, for now no less than, a GOG unique. Improvement studio Blackpowder Video games, shaped by ex-Mololith Productions staffers, hasn’t launched one other recreation since and seemingly shut down someday after Betrayer’s launch.
I am not likely positive what to make of this sudden, surprising return from digital purgatory, however I’m fairly sure that for the low low value of completely nothing, Betrayer is price no less than a couple of minutes of your time: It’d flip into one thing of a grind halfway by but it surely actually nails the spooky, haunted atmosphere of a rugged, lonely land gripped by one thing… evil.
The GOG boards for Betrayer are at the moment all however empty—happily for something with points or questions, there’s loads of assist to dig into on Steam.
