Last week via the all-powerful and all-knowing entity that is Twitter, Dark Energy Digital announced a countdown was coming, and it was for something big…
With the countdown tick-tocking its way below sea level, Hydrophobia is looming ever closer ready to sweep you away with the current…ready to pull you under the waves…ready to make you wet? I should really stop making water-related puns and just tell you to hit the jump for extra content such as screens already, shouldn’t I?
Who knows what it’ll be they announce/release when the timer finishes (12:00am GMT March 26th for the intrepid sort, unless I lost the ability to count), but until then why not find out some more about the game with me, as we delve into Hydrophobia 101.
In the mid 21st Century, Thomas Malthus’s 18th Century prophecy will finally be realised.
The Great Population Flood has brought the world to its knees. Cities and towns have become swamped as mass poverty spreads, and the rights of the individual are lost in a sea of desperation.
You are Kate Wilson, a Security Engineer onboard the Queen of the World – a stateless supership where the powerful and the wealthy live in exile from the chaos of the outside world, but united in their quest to save it.
For ten years this “City at Sea” has stood as a beacon for progress, prospering as the rest of world slowly drowns.
On the eve of the Queens massive anniversary celebrations, with a breakthrough announcement looming, the great vessel comes under attack.
Trapped behind enemy lines, Kate must fight her own demons as she becomes the last hope against an army of Neo-Malthusian terrorists, whose philosophy is simple: “Save the world, kill yourself”.
