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Somber Echoes News

Behind the curtain and between the sheets: Volume 1

Hello fellow video game kids!

We are Rock Pocket Games - a small indie developer in Tonsberg, Norway. For the last couple of years we have been making the Metroidvania known as Somber Echoes.

A few weeks ago we officially revealed the game and thought it would be cool to provide a small peak behind the curtain of the process.

Somber Echoes takes place on Atromitos - a vast Greco-Roman space vessel in a distant future. A mysterious cataclysm onboard has tainted the once proud spaceship, which is something we are trying to tell in the environments. Stories of “what if the Roman empire survived thousands of years”.

These shots are just small glimpses of what will be in the game and are work in progress, so will surely change during the development.

Hopefully this small peak conveys some of what we are trying to create.

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Creatures from another dimension are now swarming the Atromitos, and these are a few of the “pets” you are gonna meet in Somber Echoes. Greek mythology meets Lovecraft, maybe?

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Vivat Calibri!

Greek mythology meets Dead Space in new dark fantasy Metroidvania game

Somber Echoes is the newly announced sci-fi Metroidvania game from developers Rock Pocket Games and Lav Games. The 2.5D game incorporates many unique characteristics, which takes a bit to digest, as players board a Greco-Roman spaceship and face some truly gross David Cronenberg-type interdimensional baddies along the way. For fans of the genre, Somber Echoes represents a blending of inspiration that infuses aesthetic elements of Dead Space with modern Metroidvania design and gameplay.


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