14 DAY TRIAL // Independent studio Osao Games announced that the time-warping puzzle adventure platformer Chronology is set to release on May 12, on Steam.
The game is set in a beautiful universe that mixes mechanical retro-futuristic elements with classical fantasy, allowing the players to defy time by exerting their power to manipulate the past and the future, in order to fix the present, by gradually exploring the story that shapes the fate of the world.
"As massive fans of Hayao Miyazaki, the world of Chronology has been deeply influenced by animated classics such as Howls Moving Castle and My Friend Totoro. We've taken these worlds and mixed them with video game classics - Day of the Tentacles and Lost Vikings, as players travel back and forth between ages to uncover an adventure of mixed dimensions," Niels Højgaard Sørensen, game director at Osao Games, comments on his inspiration sources.
The story begins as the fez-wearing inventor awakens to discover that the world has ended, with no memory of its past, whatsoever. After stumbling upon a time travel device, his memory slowly starts to return, and the inventor embarks on a quest to alter the past in order to fix the future.
The trailer shows how the fancy-moustached protagonist and his trusty sticky sidekick, a mysterious snail, make use of their powers to alter the flow of time in order to solve various puzzles, in an attempt to fix the great undoing.
