Cypress Inheritance: The Beginning

Cypress Inheritance: The Beginning is a single-player, stealth-based strategy game set on Cypress Island. As Lorna Ritten, you search for answers about your identity and the Cypress family while pursuing objectives in an open world defended by an AI. You have 72 hours to complete your mission, and your choices and use of resources affect whether you succeed and survive.

Lorna’s inheritance

Adopted at birth, Lorna has never known her birth parents or her true identity. After a stranger approaches her, she learns she is part of the Cypress Bloodline and that Alfred Cypress, her previously unknown grandfather, has left her an inheritance whose importance she does not yet understand. Her search brings her to a secluded island, where Alfred’s eccentricity and brilliance are reflected in the technology she discovers. She must keep moving despite the dangers and avoid being caught as she uncovers what is at stake for herself and others.

Explore Cypress Island

The island is a non-linear open world of forests, caves, hidden areas, outposts and vaults, with secrets and challenges to find. You gather information and uncover the Cypress family’s past, then protect what you learn. Stealth technology helps you search without being detected, while the AI defends the area and Vonya, who knows why you have come, is determined to capture you. How you move through the island and use the assets Vonya protects matters to your progress.

Choices and survival

The game uses a cause-and-effect system: your decisions have consequences, and the way you use resources affects your chances of completing the mission in time. You balance health and stamina while overcoming obstacles, using strategy and patience to reach your objectives. Choices can lead to multiple endings, and newly started games randomize item locations, requiring you to adapt your approach.

Rebuilt gameplay

The game is presented in third person and includes an inventory system, a scrolling in-game map that can be upgraded, and a detailed weather system that affects Lorna and her objectives. Its rebuild also features new in-game cinematics, redesigned AI, and overhauled visual and audio effects, characters, animations and props. The game includes an original soundtrack by Dani Donadi.