Russian studio TallBoys has released a few more minutes of photos from Militsioner, the “trying to escape from a city watched by a gigantic police simulator” (h / t Rock paper gun).
Since last July, the game has been updated with voice acting as well as a system that lets you talk to the big cop and your fellow citizens. Other than that, it looks like the same scary, avant-garde project that the developers unveiled in 2020.
“In order for the police and the environment to properly understand the player, we are working on a system that processes the player’s responses correctly based on the context,” he said. dev blog recently explained, comparing co-op ghost hunting game Phasmophobia. “It is important that he does not make silly mistakes or create obstacles, as the answers will affect the Militsioner’s feeling and attitude towards the player. ”
TallBoys has that said Militsioner there will also be text-based alternative to the voice mechanics and maybe even a “classic speech system.”
Since it was first shown a few months ago, Militsioner has garnered attention both from fans of weird video games and state-owned Russian press, the last of which referred to the game as “Russophobic” because the police officer was not like him Uncle Styopa, a character from Russian literature and cartoons from the 1930s.
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“Our aim is not to create a bad image of the police, but to investigate the issue of duty and power,” Militsioner told art director and designer Vladimir Semenets Polygon Last September.
Militsioner is currently under development for PC. There is no release date.