The follow-up to horror adventure Maid of Sker is a co-op shooter, for some reason | PC Gamer - crossevencline

The follow-up to repulsion adventure Maiden of Sker is a atomic number 27-op crap-shooter, somehow

Maid of Sker is an extremely British revulsion game that sounds a batch like a Frictional outing: Information technology's determine in 1898, and tells the tale of "a family empire driven by torture, slavery, piracy and a supernatural mystery." It's based on Welsh folklore, and is kick in a actual-life historical edifice in Cambri called Sker Home. And it's apparently pretty good: It has a 69/100 aggregate score on Metacritic and a "very positive" user review rating happening Steam.

To build upon that success, developer Wales Synergistic announced a followup today called Sker Ritual. Only it's non a horror game—somehow, it's a "co-op survival FPS." Flashes of the new game in the all-overly-brief teaser appear similar to Maidservant of Sker—a dark forest out of doors a burning cabin, a turn-of-the-20th-century parlour—but the guns and plentiful enemies look Thomas More like something upraised from Painkiller. It will fend for alone play and cooperative action for up to four, and in case thither was whatsoever doubt IT is not a maneuver sequel but a "spiritual successor."

The Steam varlet doesn't have much more to articulate about it—"survive the ghostly onslaught of the Quiet Ones" is the extent of it so far—but it strikes ME as an odd direction for a reexamination. Off-genre spinoffs for established games series, like Resident Evil Re:Rhyme, are one thing, just Maid of Sker is literally a one-off at this point. If it did well enough to apologise another spunky, wherefore hit it something so different?

I've reached intent on Wales Interactive to ask (hey, I'm curious about these things) and will update if I experience a response. Sker Ritual is expected to be out quondam in the second quarter—that's April 1 to June 30—of 2022. Take a look at a a couple of screens down on a lower floor.

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