Palworld company publishes a new horror game

Summary

Pocketpair expands in publication with a horror game from Surgent Studios.
Surgent Studios' future horror game remains mysterious, described as “short and strange” by CEO Abubakar Salim.

The Japanese PocketPair company, the rear developer PalworldHe officially entered the publication game and announced his new project, a horror game from Surgent Studios. Pocketpair has been around for a few years and has already imposed it as a skilled developer with early access launch of Craftopia in 2020. But the studio even drew attention to Palworldwhich was launched on PC and Xbox in early 2024 and came on PlayStation 5 in September.

Despite the process that Nintendo filed against PocketPair in September because of the similarities between Palworld'S Pals and Nintendo's Pokemon, the company looks without stages. This may be due to the fact that Nintendo only requires what amounts to about $ 65,000, but PocketPair recently revealed its ambitious trail for Palworldwhich is still in early access, despite the fact that it is almost a year old.

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Palworld reveals the roadmap for anticipated access

In order to celebrate his first anniversary, Palworld reveals some of his future anticipated access plans through a shared sheet for the game community.

However, the Japanese studio does not stop at the development of survival games with incredible success of monsters. The company has been in charge of publication before, with Never Grave: the witch and curse, A Metroidvania currently under development by Frontside 180. But on January 23, the company simultaneously revealed the creation of PocketPair Publishing and its first project, a horror game from Surgent Studios. As a memory, Surgent is a movie studio that has joined the video game space in April 2024, with the launch Tales of Kenzera: ZauAn impressive debut that has been nominated for several prizes.

The first period of PocketPair publishing will be a horror game

Unfortunately, little is known about this future horror game. Abubakar Salim, the founder of the studio and CEO and voice behind the holder Zau, said that “it will be short and strange.” It is not known whether it is separated from Project Uso, the second study of Surgent Studios that was revealed in October. Inspired by the classic of 1999 PLANESCAPE: ChinThat title will be an Afro-Gothic RPG for a single player, with isometric graphics. However, Uso's description of being “darker, sharper and more visceral” does not face that it can be a horror game.

This announcement comes just a few months after Surgent Studios announced the staff on possible layoffs while looking for financing for his future projects. We hope that the collaboration with PocketPair means that the financial prospects of the studio have improved, at least for now, and its employees can feel safe by completing the USO and this new horror game, if they are really separate projects. Despite Kenzera's stories: Zau Being considered by many to be considered one of the best Metroidvanie in 2024, it seems that he did not bring the figures that the developer hopes, because Surgent employees have already faced a round of layoffs in July 2024.