Cyberpunk Adventure Primordia will Release in December

Since releasing the acclaimed Resonance in June, Wadjet Eye Games has been hard at work putting the finishing touches on a new adventure game, Primordia. Today, we're happy to report that the game's almost ready! This cyberpunk adventure for PC is on track for a December release, and the time has come to give press a peek behind the curtain.

Created by indie developer Wormwood Studios with help from Wadjet Eye, Primordia is a retro-styled, point-and-click game that combines the challenge and depth of old-school adventures with a streamlined interface and player-friendly design. Ages have passed since legendary Man walked the planet. In the desolate wastelands beyond the city of Metropol, a solitary robot named Horatio fiercely guards his freedom and independence. Then his coveted power source is stolen, and the robot is forced to leave the safety of his home on a perilous journey into the wastes and his own mysterious past.

Although published by Wadjet Eye, the game is being developed by Wormwood Studios. Among other things, it features unique art by Victor Pflug and voice acting by Logan Cunningham, the narrator of Bastion. In this interview, we chat to Mark Yohalem, Primordia's designer/writer, about the game and its inspirations and features, including its ties to the RPG genre.

Primordia is about a reclusive robot named Horatio who ekes out an existence by scavenging the wastelands around him, with the help of his sarcastic companion Crispin. Horatio's dream is to repair an airship called the UNNIIC (pronounced "unique"), in which he and Crispin live. That goal, and his very survival, is jeopardized when a robot smashes his way into the ship, declares it "forfeit," shoots Horatio, ignominiously throws him out of the ship, and then steals the ship's power core and floats off into the Dunes. Since Horatio and Crispin need electricity to survive, they have to find an alternative power source or recover the one stolen from them. As you might expect if you've played the original Fallout, things turn out to be less simple than just finding a missing part, though we never veer into the "save the world from the demonlord and his army of orcs" scenario that Fallout has. Rather, I would say that that Primordia has a much more personal story, along the lines of Planescape: Torment.