Independent UK games publisher, Wales Interactive, have announced the choice-driven adventure game Knee Deep by developers Prologue Games is out today on PlayStation 4. Knee Deep is available for £11.99/$14.99 and PlayStation Plus members will also receive a 20% discount. Xbox One launch to follow later this week on 3 February.
When a washed-up actor hangs himself on location, a spotlight is cast on the backwater Florida town of Cypress Knee. Knee Deep is a crime thriller where choices matter as you investigate this mysterious suicide.
Fans of choice-driven narrative will spot dynamic conversations that evolve based on your choices, but beware as critical decisions could lead to a breakthrough…or someone getting hurt. We give you the ownership of these characters by building personalities based on your own dialogue choices. Knee Deep comes complete with an eccentric cast of over 30 fully voiced supporting characters.
As a blogger, reporter and private investigator, you must uncover evidence and report your findings to be published to the world. After collecting several key plot points, you choose the story you want to publish and you decide how to spin the report to start a chain of reactions. Send an inflammatory headline about the local authorities or play it cautious and anger your editor-in-chief, it’s your call.
Knee Deep is about interactive storytelling, unsettling characters and the surreal melodrama of swampland Florida.
In Act 1: Wonderland, you’ll explore the rundown roadside eyesore known as Chief Roadside’s Wonderland. In Act 2: Festival, the action moves downtown as political candidates make their final pitches for the upcoming election. And in Act 3: Boomtown, our heroes find themselves deep in the north Florida swamp as they uncover the secret ambitions of their foes.