Blade Runner Fans, The Past Just Became The Present

Gemini Rue, an upcoming indie title for the PC, looks like something we sadly haven’t seen much of lately: a game that combines adventure, science fiction and a little bit of darkness. While that sounds like the nichest of niche genres, throughout the late 1980s and into the 1990s there was actually a steady stream of quality titles that Y1 Games fit just that bill. Some were trying to be Blade Runner, one was Blade Runner, but all of them shared some common elements: they were adventure games, they were set in the future and had a dark, almost noir tone.(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); Snatcher (1988) Y1 com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPkavbkOa4o Mean Streets (1989) Beneath A Steel Sky (1994) Policenauts (1994) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TNyP3zuvEM Blade Runner (1997) So, yes, quite a little fad we had going there for a while! One more thing all the games above had in common is that they’re great, so seeing Gemini Rue has put a big smile on our faces. Gemini Rue (2011) Gemini Rue, which won the Student Showcase award at the last Y1 apk Independent Games Festival, is an adventure game featuring things like hand-drawn backgrounds and visuals that look like they came straight out of 1995. And we mean that in a good way. It’ll be available later this year, but you can pre-order it now from the developer’s site if you like what you see. [Gemini Rue]