Space exploration has never been so terrifying.
While we all wait for the endless long wait before we can get our paws on Bethesda’s “Starfield” next year, we have a phenomenal way to divert your attention with a creepy sci-fi video game from WRF Studios that offers a creepy descent into the world. a suggestive alien landscape.
“Earth’s Shadow” is a third-person action dungeon crawler drenched in hardcore sci-fi that, after nearly two years of development, has just been released in Early Access and is now available for sale on Steam with a 10 launch discount. %.
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The intriguing storyline takes place in the year 3081 on the mysterious exoplanet of Sumbra, a destination in deep space where the lore and legends of priceless cosmic relics have surrounded the sinister black world for eons. These precious artifacts attract the most avid and courageous explorers and treasure hunters in search of a better future, who end up stumbling upon a much more disturbing past.
After a crash landing on the tiny dwarf planet, a cyborg pilot of a merchant ship named Alexi-Ru explores the dreaded surface of Sumbra in search of the supposed riches he has heard so much about for so long.
Like a traditional “looter shooter”, “Earth’s Shadow” amplifies the open world experience and offers some jaw-dropping visuals of crumbling ruins, nightmare forests, demonic creatures, cyclops spider robots and deadly parasites that all want to tear you apart and devour you as you go. in the eerie darkness with a variety of futuristic weapons determined to exterminate.
Created and distributed by California-based indie gaming lab WRF Studios, they are also the developers of “Vampirem” and “BloodLust Vampire” RPG for Windows, among many others.
Their visionary endeavors here on “Earth’s Shadow” are hugely impressive for such a small group and we wish WRF founder William R. Fisher good luck in all of his sci-fi gaming endeavors going forward!
“Earth’s Shadow” (opens in a new tab) is now available for PC play on Steam.
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Jeff Spry is an award-winning writer and veteran freelance journalist covering TV, movies, video games, books and comics. His work has appeared on SYFY Wire, Inverse, Collider, Bleeding Cool and elsewhere. Jeff lives in beautiful Bend, Oregon, among ponderosa pines, classic muscle cars, a collectible horror comic crypt and two faithful English Setters.
Jeff Spry is an award-winning writer and veteran freelance journalist covering TV, movies, video games, books and comics. His work has appeared on SYFY Wire, Inverse, Collider, Bleeding Cool and elsewhere. Jeff lives in beautiful Bend, Oregon, among ponderosa pines, classic muscle cars, a collectible horror comic crypt and two faithful English Setters.
