Highrisers – Urban Survival RPG now on Kickstarter

The team of Solar Powered Games has put up a Kickstarter campaign for their project Highrisers.

In Highrisers players will fight for the survival of four characters in a post-apocalyptic metropolis. The cityscape is made up of giant high-rises, in which the group has to search for the resources necessary to ensure their survival. The further down they get in the giant buildings the more dangerous their scavenging becomes, as scary creatures are lurking in the shadows, waiting to prey on the surviving humans. Players will also have to keep an eye on the time of day and prepare for nightfall. Because that is when the horrors from down below will make their way into the upper floors.

The playable characters all have unique abilities, which can be developed and influenced through an extensive skill tree. In a fascinating, gloomy 16-bit pixel world, players will go on an end-of-days adventure, use their abilities to battle enemies, and gather resources to fashion them into useful items. This allows players to create and utilize a large variety of different weapons, medicines and tools.

The stronger the characters become the further they will go down in the high-rises and decide when it is time to move on to the next high-rise in their repaired helicopter and, by doing so, get closer – step by dangerous step – to escaping the post-apocalyptic metropolis.

The PC title is scheduled for a release in the fall of 2017.

Check out the Trailer:

“Story:

After the mysterious events of the last month, mankind has practically disappeared from the world. Instead, the mysterious dreamers now populate the desolated cities, where they dwell in the dimness of the urban canyons. A group of four survivors have met up by chance in the aftermath of the calamity, and they have taken refuge on the light-flooded spires of the cities skyscrapers.
Here, they desperately work on a way out of the city, ever dreading nightfall and what it might bring up from the lower levels of their building.”

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