Deadalic Entertainment bringing State of Mind to the Nintendo Switch; details, trailer, footage, screens
As expected, many developers announced games for the Nintendo Switch after the Nintendo Switch Presentation on Friday. And that’s exactly what Daedalic Entertainment did, when they announced that State of Mind would also be released on Nintendo’s new home console.
Deadalic Entertainment describe the game as futuristic thriller, with transhumanism as its main theme. It takes place in a world that is torn between a dystopian material reality and a utopian virtual future, and some of the themes explored include separation, disjuncture and reunification.
State of Mind will have players control several characters across two separate worlds, and explore the “existential drama that develops in a society on the brink of post-material existence”.
The main character is a man named Richard Nolan (a father and journalist from Berlin), who discovers that his family has been subject to mind upload. His wife and son’s went fine, but his failed, and he found himself living in “real-life reality”, but with an incomplete second version of his self also existing in a secret Virtual Reality project.
His goal is to reunite with both his family and his split self. Naturally, the journey will not have implications only for him but also mankind as a whole.
Here’s the teaser trailer, a gameplay video, and some screenshots for the game:
- 3rd Person Adventure
- Story-driven gameplay experience
- Switching between two game worlds
- Multiple story layers
- Multiple playable characters
- Unique artstyle
This is one of the four games Daedalic is planning to bring to the Nintendo Switch, and it has been added to the Upcoming Releases page!
Source: Daedalic Entertainement
