From the creator of rivals and Echo BeachMusic detective game Riley & Rochelle is inspired by an imaginative question: What if ’90s music legends Celine Dion and Elliott Smith met and fell in love? Riley & RochelleIt’s not about Dion or Smith, of course – it’s about Riley and Rochelle, of course, two fictional musicians from the ’90s from two very different genres.
Sheinman Games founder Tim Sheinman told Polygon he was listening to a podcast about the 1998 Oscars – for which Dion was nominated titanic‘s “My heart will continue to beat,” and Smith for good will hunt‘s “Miss Misery”, – when the idea came to him: “What… if they fall in love?”
in the Riley & Rochelle, the player listens to the musicians’ work, reads their diaries and researches their lives to find out who they were and how they fell in love in the 1990s. Clues are everywhere: in the original music itself and in other documents and journal entries. It’s a fresh take on the music detective game genre that Sheinman has been iterating on for years in games like rivalswhich follows an alt-country band, and Echo Beachwhere music is illegal and persecuted online.
Riley & Rochelle has no release date yet, but it’s steam Page listed it as “coming soon” on Windows PC and Mac. Sheinman said it’s expected before 2023. It will cost $14.99.
