After the excellent crosscode, Alabaster Dawn will arrive in demo from September – News

Do you know what Chained Echoes, Clear Dark: Expedition 33, Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga, Songs of Conquest or Crosscode? All these projects aimed at paying tribute to titles from the 90s/2000 years, but rather than falling into the simple soulless copy, they allowed themselves to emulate, to offer an original proposal, despite these obvious inspirations. The 5 games mentioned above are all excellent, precisely by this supplement of soul which lacks many other titles with the same ambition, which are sometimes simply satisfied with playing with a fine nostalgic rope. CrossCode is a flamboyant example, much more than just Zelda 2D-Like. And since 2018, the team responsible for the little gem has been working on their next piece of goldsmithery: Alabaster Dawn.

We talked about it a year ago already, even if the project has already been known to lovers of Radical Fish Games for a long time now, the studio tends to share a whole bunch of quick images and videos via its social networks in order to allow everyone to follow the progress of the project. And the project is moving well! The German studio took advantage of the secret Sauce Showcase to unveil a new gameplay video for its next title. The first images cannot hide the evidence: the spirit CrossCode is always there. It should be, once again, an action/RPG game for above, with a combat and displacement system obviously similar to that offered in 2018. But visually, the difference is notable: Alabaster Dawn offers HD environments (sets, effects, animations) combined with pixel-art for the design of the characters, a result closer to an assumed 2.5D.

As a bonus, the studio took advantage of this announcement to reveal that a demo version of the game will be available next September, on Steam only. Because yes, for the time being, only a PC version is planned for the game. But we recall that CrossCode had ended up going out on absolutely all the platforms: we obviously hope for a spell similar to Alabaster Dawn.