Inescapable: No Rules, No Escape to trap all Switch owners on October 19th

Mark your calendar: October 19th is the day your dreams finally come true: you will fly to a tropical island resort and take part in a reality TV show with 10 strangers. Doesn’t sound like your cup of tea? Well, tough luck: you don’t get to say in whether you participate or not.

That’s how things work in Inescapable: No Rules, No Escape, the narrative adventure game developed by DreamLoop Games. Aksys Games (the publisher) has announced that it will launch on October 19th in Europe and North America.

To celebrate the announcement, a brand new trailer was shared:

And here’s some more details for the game:

On the island, there are no rules or laws for the contestants to follow. Their only imperatives are to survive and to entertain the depraved audience of the Dark Web TV show on which they find themselves. The story explores human nature and how far people will go for social clout, wealth, and their own desires—and how much farther they might be willing to go when they have permission to ignore the rules. 

“Inescapable: No Rules, No Escape isn’t a Death Game. Or, more accurately, it isn’t just a Death Game. Here, your relationship with other characters is game-defining,” says Joni Lappalainen, CEO of Dreamloop. “It’s about how six months in the most insane circumstances you can imagine might change you. Player choices and actions matter more in Inescapable: No Rules, No Escape than almost any other game we’ve seen in the genre, and it isn’t just limited to dialogue choices.”

The actions players take will affect more than just the ending in Inescapable: No Rules, No Escape. You serve as Harrison’s moral compass, so your choices and behavior alter which side of other characters you experience, which in turn changes large portions of the story, the reality show itself, and even the very game mechanics you encounter. Will your choices lead to Lord of the Flies—total anarchy? Or will it be akin to Love Island—romance options and all? Or something else entirely?

• Multiple narrative paths
• A provocative character-driven story
• A diverse cast of characters with intriguing personalities and backstories
• Hours of voice-acted dialogue
• A full-length original soundtrack with music from Zero Escape‘s Shinji Hosoe and Matias Lehtoranta

Inescapable: No Rules, No Escape (Switch) comes out on October 19th in Europe and North America.

Source: Aksys Games PR (03/08/2023)