Unbroken

Unbroken is a mood-driven action-adventure with first-person shooter combat and role-playing elements. You travel to Crests Edge to find the traitor Nielsen and bring him to justice, dead or alive. You can follow different routes, abandon your goal or uncover secrets across the realm, with nine possible endings.

The realm of Crests Edge

Crests Edge is a large, diverse kingdom in the North, far from your homeland. Its severe class divisions shape the characters’ customs, attitudes and language, as well as the realm’s technology, architecture and clothing. The poorest regions resemble medieval times, while the wealthiest are closer to the industrial Victorian and World War I eras. The Township changes as you advance toward your goal.

The realm is caught up in the Feast of the 3rd Moon and the Earl’s Rebellion. You have five full moons to complete your quest. The timeline advances as you play, and events and backstory develop in response to your actions and to power struggles unfolding in the background.

Explore and fight

After a tutorial and an introductory section, you are left to explore without directions. Progress depends on patience, exploration and experimentation, and the game includes slow, mood-building passages between combat. When fights break out, you can string together flashy moves and combos in brief bursts of violence.

Resin oils grant bullet time in different forms, and choosing the right one at the right moment can be a matter of life and death. The resin kick can send enemies flying or turn multiple inanimate objects into large-caliber projectiles. Combat also features volumetric blood and projectile-entry holes that let you see through enemies.

Style and soundtrack

The game uses a retro sprite-based first-person visual style with modern shaders, lighting, physics, ragdolls and destructible environments. Its dynamic jazzpunk soundtrack changes in sync with the action.