To be completely sincere, I would fully forgotten about Clockwork Revolution, a distinctly BioShock Infinite-looking first-person immersive sim revealed by inXile Leisure in June 2023. In my protection, it has been fairly a while since we final heard about it, however the studio lately reminded followers that it is taking place in a most uncommon means.
The reminder was prompted by a person on Twitter, who after inXile tweeted concerning the obvious lawlessness of Leap Day—February 29, which because the outdated youngsters’s rhyme tells us, solely occurs as soon as in 4—took the chance to ask for an replace on the state of the sport. InXile, considerably surprisingly, responded. With bread.
Why bread? What does it imply? How is bread contextualized inside the norms of Steampunk? The sharper minds at GamesRadar puzzled it out: It is not bread however breadcrumbs, the time-honored metaphor for a path of small clues, slowly however absolutely resulting in the answer of a thriller nice or small.
It is a bit complicated, sure, however one factor’s for positive: Bread in videogames positive has come a great distance over time.
Sadly, this explicit path of breadcrumbs was very brief—simply that single tweet—and led to nothing extra attention-grabbing than a mild reminder that, sure, Clockwork Revolution continues to be taking place. Which might be not the worst concept provided that, as I stated, I would fully forgotten about it. I’ll simply assume that I am not alone in that regard.
It’s value noting, nonetheless, that this isn’t the one bread-adjacent bit of promoting for Clockwork Revolution. A pair weeks in the past the studio dropped a “masters of promoting” video that includes two very massive items of risen dough:
There’s additionally this perception into inXile’s inventive course of from December 2023, which so far as I can inform has no connection to bread, however since we’re right here anyway we’d as properly take a second to say thanks to the bathroom kazoo:
Backside line: I am undecided what is going on on at inXile today, nevertheless it’s nonetheless engaged on Clockwork Revolution and that is ok for me. The BioShock Infinite vibe is not possible to overlook, however mission director Chad Moore stated a couple of weeks after it was revealed that Clockwork Revolution is basically “the love little one of [Arcanum] and [Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines],” and also you higher consider that is a sport I wish to play. (And Moore ought to know: he labored on each these video games.)
For the file, Clockwork Revolution would not have a launch date at this level, nevertheless it’s out there for wishlisting on Steam.