Idiot’s Idea is a Polish studio headed by Jakub Rokosz, previously senior quest designer on The Witcher 2 and three at CD Projekt Crimson. Relations should nonetheless be good between them, since Idiot’s Idea is presently engaged on the remake of the primary Witcher recreation, with CDPR having “full artistic supervision.”
As well as, Idiot’s Idea has an authentic recreation within the works, which it lately revealed. The Thaumaturge is an isometric RPG set in a model of early twentieth century Warsaw during which spirit beings known as salutors are summoned and tamed by occultists for their very own ends. We’ll be taking part in one such salutor-botherer, who could be seen within the gameplay trailer commanding a few spirits, in addition to getting in fistfights and jogging round varied elements of Russia-controlled Warsaw.
These spirits are a bukavac—the eyeless four-armed one with all of the hooks and chains—and an upyr—the pleasant wanting skull-faced chap with the fur hat, who is outwardly the ghost of a vengeful nobleman.
The salutors could be managed in The Thaumaturge’s turn-based fight, the place they’ve a wide range of skills to contribute. The bukavac, “A hideous monstrosity that embodies punishment for atrocious crimes,” could cause harm with a Syrmian Whisper or a Howl assault, in addition to inflicting a debuff known as Struggling that causes attrition harm. It additionally has a Bloody Wedding ceremony ability that causes extra harm the extra enemies are affected by Struggling. They’re mainly Pokémon, solely actual fucked-up.
The Thaumaturge additionally guarantees to have investigation mechanics, choice-and-consequence ethical choices, and the power to develop the primary character in numerous methods that can open up completely different choices for fixing issues.
Just like the Witcher remake, The Thaumaturge is being developed in Unreal Engine 5, which ought to assist its closely researched recreation of Warsaw look fairly. At the very least, till the undead flip up.
Idiot’s Idea beforehand assisted Larian as a assist studio on Divinity: Authentic Sin 2 and Baldur’s Gate 3, in addition to releasing an RPG known as Seven: The Days Lengthy Gone in 2017. This time the studio is working with 11 Bit, the creator of Frostpunk, who’s appearing as writer for The Thaumaturge. No launch date has been introduced but, however it’ll be obtainable on Steam (opens in new tab), GOG (opens in new tab), and the Epic Video games Retailer (opens in new tab).
