Do crimes and save floating New York City in this alternate-1930s RPG

New York, New York, it’s a helluva town! The Bronx is up but the Battery's besides up due to the fact that they some tally connected anti-gravity now! Haha, ohio my sides. Please excuse my precise whimsical Broadway instauration to Aether & Iron, a sci-fantasy RPG from an alternate 1930s successful which New York has taken a crook for the Bioshock Infinite, soaring done the clouds attraction of fancy “aether” technology.

It’s inspired by creation deco and 1930s detective comics, features a turn-based combat strategy involving getaway cars, and is the enactment of a squad that includes erstwhile Ubisoft scribe Justin Cummings. Here’s a trailer.

In Aether & Iron you play an offensively stylish smuggler who sports the benignant of trenchcoat and fedora operation I imagination of pulling off, but which typically makes maine look arsenic though I’ve gotten dressed astatine a themepark giftshop portion escaping a flood. Using what appears to beryllium a blend of ornate representation screens, ocular caller backdrops and store menus, you’ll enlistee a unit and transportation contraband portion gathering up 3 halfway stats – Hustle, Smarts, and Brass.

“No substance however bully you are ever a dice rotation distant from occurrence oregon failure,” the blurb cautions. I ideate they suffer a batch of dice up determination successful giddy, free-floating New York. The city’s tabletop role-players indispensable beryllium an implicit plague connected the radical surviving beneath - ideate being killed by a D20 dropped from 10 miles up. But I digress.

In the people of making a tidy haul connected the seedy broadside of the tracks, you volition besides person the accidental to “rise arsenic a savior, retreat arsenic a renegade, oregon germinate into a awesome of resilience successful a satellite of authoritarian barons and high-stakes strategy”. Whichever way you pick, it sounds similar determination volition beryllium plentifulness of car chases. The game’s aether-powered roadsters tin beryllium outfitted with fume dispensers, occurrence throwers, alloy plates and grenade launchers. Going by the trailer above, the vehicular battles are grid-based with the quirk that the splitting of the roadworthy mightiness disagreement 1 operator from the rest.

Aether & Iron appeals to maine partially due to the fact that they’ve successfully rolled 1 of those D20s and conquered the impulse to statement it “aetherpunk”. Well done, developers Seismic Squirrel! That was a adjacent one. I besides rather bask the snippets I’ve caught of the penning from the trailer. You tin work much connected Steam.