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Backbone Announced
STOCKHOLM — May 26, in the year of our Lord 2021 — Pull on your trenchcoat and get ready to enter a dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals, where an oppressive caste system puts everyone in their place… even if it's six feet underground. Developer EggNut and publisher Raw Fury have announced that Backbone, the post-noir roleplaying detective adventure game, will launch on June 8 for Windows PC via Steam, GOG.com, the Epic Games Store, and the Microsoft Store. It will also be free to download with Xbox Game Pass for PC.
Backbone puts you in the shoes of Howard Lotor, a raccoon private investigator swept up in a job unlike any other after years of small-time cases, lonely evenings, and just barely scraping by. Explore a wildly imagined alternate version of Vancouver, British Columbia, filled with enigmatic characters and beautifully rendered in high-resolution pixel art and moody jazz music. What starts as a menial case slowly unravels into something much darker, pitting Howard against the oppressive, systemic power hierarchies of the city itself.
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Explore the seedy underbelly of Vancouver, a world inhabited by anthropomorphic animals like yourself.
Make meaningful connections with a diverse cast of characters in pursuit of the truth.
Unravel a tangled mystery that will shake the roots of this modern dystopian society.
High-resolution 2.5D pixel art creates a breathtaking landscape to explore, brought to life with 3D effects like dynamic lighting, pouring rain, volumetric fog and neon lights.
Original doom jazz soundtrack adds to the game’s cinematic ambience, telling a story with every sound.
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