Up-coming horror adventure game Close to the Sun to arrive exclusively on the Epic Games Store on PC

[Bhonar]

does their font look like Bioshock's?

 

[Adamska]

At some point people ought to get warned for simply posting "EGS = no buy" in every thread regarding games announced as exclusive on Epic's store. Like, it's okay not to post. It's like posting "PS = no buy" on a TLOU thread.

OT, this looks like an interesting horror title. I do like it when time travelling goes awry.

 

[Deleted member 4494]

Never heard of this Unreal Development Grant they speak of in their press release. I assume that is what is tying this game to the EGS? If so, I guess I wouldn't be quite as up in arms about it being an exclusive for the store if they more or less helped to fund the game.

 

[sredgrin]

I was wondering why this game felt/sounded familiar and I guess that's because of a Gematsu article from 2017.

Also the highly aniticpiated indie darling thing just sounds "off" as well as the success on EGS, since it sounds like the game is already out and did well and if so why "up-comming"?

I just have so many questions, from the looks of it when some people first heard of the game (this is before the EGS stuff) they were put off with it since it mainly seemed to be a walking simulator

Okay so rereading it I guess they are saying that having the game on RGS shows Epics willingness to have indie games on there and supporting them

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You are putting way too much thought into what is obviously just meant to be an eye catching press release. It's from a PR firm.

 

[Juan29.Zapata]

A horror game involving Nikola Tesla? Hmm, I'll keep my eye on this.

 

[Deleted member 9317]

I hate the term "Indie Darling". Like wtf does that even mean?

That said, this has Bioshock written all over it.

 

[Muad'dib]

Indie darling? First I hear of it, and it's Epic exclusive which means I'll continue to ignore it.

 

[SirKai]

Cool, can't wait to buy it a year later on GOG or Steam.

 

[Deleted member 3208]

Never heard of this Unreal Development Grant they speak of in their press release. I assume that is what is tying this game to the EGS? If so, I guess I wouldn't be quite as up in arms about it being an exclusive for the store if they more or less helped to fund the game.

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More like having to pay less royalties to Epic for using UE. Doubt they funded the development of the game.

 

[GhostTrick]

At some point people ought to get warned for simply posting "EGS = no buy" in every thread regarding games announced as exclusive on Epic's store. Like, it's okay not to post. It's like posting "PS = no buy" on a TLOU thread.

OT, this looks like an interesting horror title. I do like it when time travelling goes awry.

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Backseat modding I see.
Funny to see how it's the people lying coming to defend EGS at every turn.

 

[Reinhard]

Never heard of it, but good luck with EGS. I wont be playing it as long as it has this exclusivity nonsense on an inferior store front. I MIGHT have considered buying on EGS if the store had exact feature parity with Steam for consumers but even then buying up exclusives like this does nothing but harms the market. As it stands, why should I spend money to use a storefront that lacks many consumer features without any benefits, it is just Epic using Fortnite money to remove games from the normal gamestore marketplace....

 

[AllThingsPurple]

Wonder if it will come to consoles. Looks interesting

 

[mario_O]

From the trailer, I feel like I've played this game many times before.

 

[sredgrin]

More like having to pay less royalties to Epic for using UE. Doubt they funded the development of the game.

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It's both. The grant they mentioned does help fund games. It was what they focused on prior to the store existing as a way to get people using Unity and Crytengine to use UE4 instead.

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/epic-games-announces-over-800k-in-unreal-dev-grants

They got 800k in funds from the grant.