Wales Interactive also release the Soul Axiom DLC featuring the Artbook & Soundtrack!
Today, the Wales Interactive team are celebrating the launch of their first-person adventure thriller, Soul Axiom, for PC, Mac and Linux. Soul Axiom will leave Steam Early Access today at 10AM (PST)/6PM (GMT) and the 1.0 version will launch with a discount of 30%!
DLC Release – Gamers will also have the chance to buy the DLC content, almost two years in the making, featuring an 85-page digital art book with designs from Senior Artist, Chris Phillips and a two-hour long soundtrack by Music & Sound Engineer, Gareth Lumb. The 30% discount applies to all options including the DLC only, the Deluxe Edition and the Super Deluxe DLC bundle. The DLC content will unlock at 10AM (PST)/6PM (GMT).
Head over to the Soul Axiom Steam page
Reception – The Master Reboot successor, started its journey on Steam Early Access and since then has built up a strong community, praising the studio for their Early Access development cycle and has received a 95% positive rating. Since its first appearance in 2012, Soul Axiom has been featured by Microsoft and Nintendo and gaming event across the world such as E3, Gamescom, GDC, EGX and REZZED. More recently, the game has been nominated for various awards including the “Best Console/PC Hardcore” at the Game Connection America 2016 Awards, “Use of Narrative” at the Develop Awards 2015 and best “Action/Adventure” at the TIGA Games Industry Awards 2015.
The Game In A Nutshell – Soul Axiom is a first-person, story-driven adventure game, set in the beautiful, haunting cyber-world of Elysia. Collect unique hand powers in this compelling cyber-thriller to solve puzzles, manipulate the environment and unlock the path to your adventure. Immerse yourself in a dramatic story with over 20 hours of gameplay and 40 distinct locations to explore. Choose your destiny and discover multiple endings as you unravel the mysteries of your digital afterlife.
Reviews
“Soul Axiom is an unsettling and compelling techno/cyber-thriller, with a killer visual style that matches its high-concept premise.”
Destructoid
“It really is beautiful, nailing a Tron-like neon cyberspace feel … It’s atmospherically creepy without relying on dripping meathooks or lunging monsters.”
Rock, Paper, Shotgun
“It’s an enjoyably slick addition to the so-called “walking simulator” genre, and I’m fascinated to see what it adds next, and where its increasingly strange story eventually ends up.”
IGN
About This Game
IN A NUTSHELL
From the studio that brought you Master Reboot comes a first-person story-driven adventure puzzle game, set in the beautiful, haunting cyber-world of Elysia. Collect unique hand powers, discover multiple endings and choose your own destiny as you unravel the mystery of your digital afterlife.
THE GAME
Explore Soul Axiom’s rich environments and immersive story to unravel the mystery of your life, and your digital afterlife. You will be taken on an intriguing voyage of discovery, through beautiful, haunting locations, facing challenges that will lead you into danger on your mission to unlock your identity, your story, your mystery. But beware: some mysteries are better left unsolved.
SYNOPSIS
Take your first steps to paradise by uploading your soul to Elysia, named by critics as “the single most important development in the history of the human race” (Era Magazine, 2027). As the latest state of the art Digital Soul Provider, Elysia is a sprawling server where your memories and dreams become reality. Our patented SoulSync system allows you to choose the memories you want to enjoy for eternity; whether you are a living user or you simply wish to leave a lasting testament of your life that the whole family can relive at their leisure.
In Elysia, death has no dominion. In Elysia, life has no boundaries. Cast off your mortal shackles and discover the secret to immortality in your digital afterlife.
Discover Elysia. Then, now and forever.
THE FIRST 5 MINUTES OF THE GAME
When you begin the game you are free falling through a storm. Lightning sporadically illuminates the sky, showing brief, vivid flashes of memories. Your memories. You struggle to take a breath as you plummet, out of control, into the eye of the storm, towards your certain death. Squinting, eyelashes battling the rain, you catch a glimpse of a large object that you are hurtling towards. You brace yourself for impact, for death, confused and terrified and –
You are on the deck of a ship, rain pummelling the wooden boards around you. You look up to see four shadowy figures on the bridge, gazing into the distance, with an old man at the helm.
FEATURES
• Psychological Adventure with Exploration & Puzzle elements: Interact with a variety of cryptic logic and action puzzles, find clues and explore memories to unlock the secrets of your identity.
• 20 to 30 Hours of Gameplay: The game is packed full of content with 6 chapters, 40 unique locations, over 100 puzzles and 63 Steam Achievements, expect over 20 hours of captivating gameplay.
• Collectible Hand Powers: Harness the abilities of Elysia. Discover new powers that will assist exploration and puzzle solving by phasing, building, destroying or corrupting the digital world around you.
• Multiple Story Endings: A tense, but thought-provoking narrative with multiple outcomes, and leaves you yearning to explore all avenues of the lore.
• Unique visual style: There is a beautifully simplistic emphasis on striking shapes, strong colors, and beautiful effects and lighting to elicit a variety of emotions within The Elysia.
• Dynamic adaptive environments: Use your abilities to manipulate your surrounding environments. Collect your powers and re-visit memories to unlock previously hidden areas.
• Haunting Soundtrack with 50 original compositions: Provides the perfect musical backdrop which subtly enhances the game through well-crafted association with the memories you explore.