The Toren videogame release date is set for May 12, 2015 exclusively for PC & PS4. Toren is a narrative-driven Action Adventure with stylish graphics and a compelling story developed by an Indie-studio out of Brazil called “Swordtales”.
Check out this trailer for Toren, which details the game’s compelling narrative and showcases it’s age-based hook.
Toren has been critically acclaimed, winning an “Honorable Mention” at the Independant Games Festival, and awarded with “Finalist in Design Art” at the Brasil Game Show and “Finalist in Design Art” for IndiePub.
Here’s the Toren image gallery.
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Synopsis
Experience the mysterious, timeless world of Toren, the first adventure game from Brazilian indie developer Swordtales. You are Moonchild, destined to climb the tower (known as Toren) on a hauntingly solitary journey to find your purpose. You must solve puzzles and face monsters as you struggle to climb to the top of this beautiful, yet treacherous environment, driven by the will to find your freedom.
Key Toren Features:
* A Journey of Learning & Fulfillment
As the story progresses your character will age from a mere infant to grown woman; creating new mechanics and challenges for each learning experience and phase of her life. In addition, the Tree of Life within the tower grows as she does, providing access to new areas to explore and new items to find.
* Poetry Brought to Life
Toren features dark fantasy storytelling in a universe filled with symbolism. The mysterious, fantastical atmosphere is conveyed through an award-winning Art Design and Original Score. As your journey unfolds you will discover scrolls of poetry, which reveal the story and true origins behind Toren and aid the Moonchild in discovering her purpose.
* Rich Puzzle Solving
Every stage of the game features new and progressively more deadly challenges for the player: solving environmental puzzles, learning how to avoid and survive attacks from dangerous creatures, and eventually defeating the end boss.
I absolutely adore the narrative that this new indie developer is bringing to “Toren” (what a cool name. I love it when developers are able to come up with an original title).
Narrative is one of the biggest drivers of great games in my humble opinion, I sometimes place it above actual gameplay; and the story is so interesting here that Toren immediately has my attention.
I can’t tell from the gameplay segments whether the gameplay will be able to live up to the narrative’s creativity, but it certainly doesn’t look bad.
Definitely looking forward to checking Toren out.
What do you think of Toren?