The studio once belonged to the spearhead of the German development landscape, last year Piranha Bytes was finally closed after hard years. However, two creative minds behind the game forces want to continue to develop, so founded Pithead Studio and have now presented their first project.
Pithead Studio's first project is called Calon. Björn and Jennifer Pankratz, the founders of the studio and formerly important employees of Piranha Bytes, bake significantly smaller rolls than with Gothic, Elex and Risen, which does not mean that a simple game awaits you.
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Calon is a 3D dungeon crawler, the main inspiration of which are genre classics such as Arx Fatalis and Ultima Underworld. The game feeling is to garnish through elements from role -playing games and adventures, but with concrete details, Pithead is still holding back.
The game offers you various option to upgrade and improve your equipment, and fights should also play a major role. The first trailer offers a minimal view of this, as well as on smaller puzzles and traps. However, the scenes shown are so vague that they are at most to speculate.
The story of Calon revolves around a demon that you chase as an eponymous main character. Stupidly, she plunged into the shaft of a mine and wanted to escape from it accordingly. Of course, all sorts of secrets are waiting for you and the pancial also promise various references to stories and industrial monuments of their homeland, the Ruhr area.
There is currently no publication date for Calon. As a release platform, only the PC is set via Steam and the Epic Games Store. But in the press release there is talk of further platforms are not excluded.
