Polish indie developer Paradark Studio has announced ExeKiller — a new cyberpunk action-adventure game sporting serious Blade Runner 2049 aesthetics.
ExeKiller is set in alternate 1998 New York after the Earth is ravaged by the Great Fire Disaster, which killed over 70 percent of mankind. Playing as an Exekiller, whose job is to collect S.O.U.L.S. biochips from outlaws, you’ll dive deep into the dangerous and dirty work of a bounty hunter, seeking out hidden targets, eliminating them, and extracting chips from their bodies. However, you can choose your own way to deal with your targets aside from killing — either bring them to justice or set them free.
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The game’s debut trailer promises a very familiar cyberpunk setting, clearly inspired by Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 or other classic properties with flying cars, post-apocalyptic scenery, and vigilante hunting other not-so-bad guys. Other inspirations include western outlaw movies, dark sci-fi, and retro-futurism. According to Paradark Studio CEO Amadeusz Wróbel, ExeKiller was born from mixing these genres. Check the debut footage of the project for yourself:
From its trailer, ExeKiller looks like it will be a first-person shooter at its core, supplemented by other mechanics, such as stealth and dialogue systems. It is unknown if you’ll be able to drive a flying vehicle on your own, but judging by the debut trailer, it seems possible.
ExeKiller looks like quite an ambitious title for a debut indie project. The game's feature list is packed with plenty of choices that affect the story: massive replayability, an ever-changing environment with diverse regions, various types of weapons, tools, and special abilities at your disposal, a fully dynamic day and night cycle, dynamic weather, and even random radioactive sun storms.
ExeKiller is coming to PC via Steam “when it’s ready,” but you can already add the project to your wishlist. Paradark currently has no plans to release the game on any platform other than PC.
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