Cosmonaut Studios has announced the release date for its new single-player first-person narrative-driven puzzle game Eternal Threads. The game will include elements of manipulation, choice, and consequence. The game puts the player in the shoes of an operative tasked with fixing a time anomaly where six people have died of a house fire. Players will be forced to manipulate the choices of the six residents in order to prevent the incident. The game is set to release for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam on May 19.
The game’s key features via its Steam Page can be seen below:
Key Features
Choose How You Want to Follow the Game’s Story
The complete narrative follows the six main characters through multiple decisions across multiple timelines and you can experience these in any way you choose. You can concentrate on just one particular character’s storyline at a time, following their choices across the timelines and then go back to the start and follow another character.
You can approach the story like a forensic detective, observe the final outcomes of the story and then work backwards along the timeline – essentially observing the effects and then determining their cause.
Or you can just watch things in chronological order, experiencing the timeline unfold as you observe and change the decisions that the characters face as the week progresses.Watch and Change Things as Many Times as You Like – Can’t remember exactly what happened in an event? Changed a decision and you’re not sure you like the consequences? That’s fine. Just pop back along the timeline and watch and change whatever you like, whenever you like, as many times as you like.
Change the Past to Affect the Future – Setting up temporary base in the house mere hours after the fire, provides a unique perspective on events. As you look back through the timeline, past events play out in front of you in ghostly form, with the smoke and fire damaged house a constant reminder of what is to come. In addition, as you manipulate the past, the environment can be reset around you to match the changes taking place. Some new objects will appear, others will move around the house and the contents of rooms can change substantially as you change the past.
Eternal Threads is set to release for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam on May 19
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