Theory Interactive and Nvidia have revealed a new in-game screenshot for Reset, an upcoming first person puzzle game for PC. There is an IndieGoGo campaign for it, so make sure to check it out.
A sci-fi noir, a mystery, a first person puzzle game. Reset is infused with mind boggling puzzles, a grippingly haunting but beautiful story and an unparalleled immersive atmosphere.
Reset is a single player adventure. The unique game mechanic in Reset is the ability to travel back in time to solve puzzles co-operatively with yourself. You multiply yourself by first marking a place/time of re-entry in the game world and then proceeding to complete one part of a puzzle. You then reset (jump back in time) to the re-entry mark creating two separate co-existing timelines. But the mechanic is not limited to two timelines, more elaborate puzzles have multiple timelines for some serious mind fun.
The second-to-second gameplay is similar to games like Portal but the mechanic is akin to games like The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom, Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time, Prometheus UDK.
The full experience of Reset depends on you knowing very little about the story beforehand. Not spoiling too much we can tell you that the story takes place on a fictional volcanic island in the Galápagos. You will be free to roam the mysterious 16 square km game world in which individual puzzles can be discovered and solved in any order.
Wandering around and exploring the mysterious game world is something that players will enjoy at their own pace so that is something that will affect the length possibly greatly, but we are looking at around 6 hours of brain teasing gameplay. Although the story is strongly tied to the puzzles, the island is littered with bits and pieces of information, that will deepen the experience. This game is meant to be played in a couple of sittings and leave you thinking about it hopefully for some time after that. It's meant to be played, enjoyed and leave your brain tingling afterwards.
Main features:
- Unique single player co-op mechanic with 33 individual puzzles to solve
- Gorgeous 16 square km open world island to explore and get lost in
- Smart, haunting but beautiful storyline
- True next gen immersive PC experience enabled by in-house tech Praxis including:
- Physically based multilayered materials
- True HDR rendering
- Volumetric lighting
- Dynamic day and night cycles with accurate star positions
- Dynamic weather effects including highly realistic cloud simulation, rain and fog with varying density
- High quality multichannel audio
Reset requires Windows Vista or newer as well as graphics hardware compliant with DirectX 10. We take advantage of some features that are optional in DirectX 10, so not all hardware of that level may be able to run the game. All hardware compliant with DirectX 10.1 or newer will be able to run the game.
Support for Linux, OS X and SteamOS as well as upcoming consoles (Xbox One and PlayStation 4) has been discussed internally. No plans have been drawn yet but whatever the future may hold, we will be concentrating on Windows first.
System specs are not defined yet but since we are on the PC platform, we will embrace it to the fullest and release Reset with an abundance of settings to tweak. High visual quality is very important to us so there will be that very high-end point to really set your machine on fire, but we and the game are not all about just that. We want the game to be enjoyed by PC gamers of all levels.
