
It turns out that the relentlessly scientific approach that we've been building into every nook and cranny of our setting since the beginning has the potential to make After Reset RPG the first hard science fiction video game in history.Īfter discussing this discovery with our team and gaming journalists, I decided to summarize and share some of the most enduring classic myths about life after the apocalypse that we intend to do away with in our game. What really made these books stand out was their detailed scientific and technical basis and their realistic extrapolation from that. The difference lies in its strict adherence to scientific laws firmly established at the time of writing. Wells, it has been considered the original science fiction genre. Yes, the international gaming community has industry standard space operas ( Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Mass Effect, etc.) space westerns (are you waiting for Firefly too?) purely apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic games ( Fallout, Metro, etc.) cyberpunk ( Deus Ex, Syndicate, etc.) steampunk ( Arcanum, Dishonored etc.) alternate history games ( Command and Conquer) and more.īut it turns out that no one has yet made a completely hard science fiction game, despite the fact that since the time of H. It's hard to imagine my surprise when I came up empty handed. In complete disbelief, I checked the Internet and Wikipedia. Recently, in my work designing and analyzing concepts for another weapon from our game, I heard that there hasn't yet been a hard science fiction video game.

But I feel to share that short series of articles first

I thought to publish new video from the game in this update/news.
