Pathologic is getting a remake!There is a town in the Russian steppes that's slowly dying of plague. Three healers have arrived independently on the same day to try and find a cure, each one giving the player a different story through the same events.
The original was the sort of game which failed in lots of objective ways - bad graphics, bad translation, in many ways kind of boring - but which had enough character and atmosphere to become almost legendary anyway. The remake looks like it's aimed at fixing those problems while adding more quests and events, creating a more realistic economy (so that prices don't change in a fixed way) and making the disease behave more realistically. I'm not good at writing, read the
kickstarter page instead.
Anyway, the reason I'm posting it here is that Ice-Pick Lodge (the developers) are definitely on the artsy end of the spectrum, trying to make new experiences within games, whereas Arcen seem more to be focused on taking old styles and improving or mixing them to get to new places. But despite this they're two of the three or four developers that I've seen get praise like 'I'm glad they exist, even when I don't like their games', and I certainly like both because they make games unlike anyone else's.
Do the rest of you like Arcen's games for the same reason, or have you got you're own?
(sorry if my writing's a bit convoluted, I've got important procrastination to be doing)
