BitSummit, Japan’s starring indie games event, was held implicit the play successful Kyoto, and among the games showcased was 1 called Tokyo Stories that has really got my attention.

Developed by Drecom, who are usually successful the concern of making telephone games, it’s a moody escapade crippled acceptable successful Tokyo where, cryptically, “The metropolis continues to archer her story, adjacent aft her disappearance”.

The game’s trailer looks fantastic, with an creation benignant that builds its satellite successful 3D past gives everything a gritty pixel creation effect, earlier smothering it each successful immoderate incredibly moody lighting effects:

Looks amazing, right? By present though you mightiness besides beryllium wondering however the crippled really plays, since that trailer was astir wholly made up of cinematic sequences. IGN Japan were astatine BitSummit, and aft a hands-on demo with Tokyo Stories accidental that it’s built precise overmuch similar a accepted PS1 game, with a fixed camera position that your 3D quality walks astir in, with astir of your clip spent simply wandering the city’s streets (you’re locked to a walking speed) exploring and learning astir the satellite astir you.

This mightiness beryllium a agelong changeable for older heads here, but if anyone remembers the 2013 PS3 exclusive Rain, you mightiness spot immoderate similarities here, and with bully reason. Leading improvement connected Tokyo Stories is Yuki Ikeda, who was besides manager connected Rain, and having been moving connected assorted projects astatine Drecom this is his archetypal all-new crippled successful a decade.

Tokyo Stories is presently slated for PC and “consoles”, with a merchandise day planned for sometime successful 2023. If you privation to spot much connected the game, its authoritative Instagram relationship has immoderate smaller clips, including 1 that shows however the game’s unsocial ocular look is achieved: