If you played Bastion or Transistor -- and why wouldn't you, they were great games-- then you should be very excited to know that Supergiant Games has announced on their website their newest title Pyre, complete with reveval trailer!
image from Pyre site page at Supergiant
Pyre will be a "party-based role-playing game" and will be available to play at PAX East this week, so if you're going visit Booth #8212.
About the Game: In Pyre, you lead a band of exiles through an ancient competition spread across a vast, mystical purgatory.
The Story So Far: At the beginning of the game, your luck has almost run out when several masked wanderers find you and revive you from the brink. With your help, they seek to learn the truth about the Rites, a secretive competition through which the worthiest exiles can return home, absolved of their transgressions. As you journey across the Downside in the wanderers' custom blackwagon, you'll meet a variety of characters of all shapes and sizes, and learn what's in store for each of them should they prevail in the Rites. Your actions will determine who returns to glory, and who remains in exile to the end of their days.
I hope you're all as excited as I am! Transistor and Bastion were both amazing games so I'm super excited to see what Supergiant has in store for us next! Supergiant is known to make outstanding stories with characters that make you think and wonder who they are/were/could've been.
Transistor's protagonist, Red, was a mystery players got to unravel as they made their way through the city of Cloudbank, clues to her past revealed through interesting gameplay mechanics, some of which had to be unlocked as you progressed. Bastion's protagonist was simply known as The Kid, but the narrative built around him and other characters living in the Bastion drew you in. You cared for these characters and Supergiant looks to do it all again with a group of characters in Pyre, and I'll gladly jump into another story by them.
Pyre is set for release in 2017 simultaneously on Steam and PlayStation 4.
