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[Bartski]

Neon Giant is a Swedish game studio co-founded by former developers from Machinegames (Wolfenstein series). Back in 2021, Neon Giant released its first game, The Ascent, a top-down cyberpunk action RPG. Since then, the studio was acquired by the Korean publisher Krafton, and now they are working on what was described in a press release as an "open world immersive FPS".

Here's every bit of information I've managed to find:

• It's codenamed Project Impact;
• Tor Frick, creative director at Neon Giant, calls this project a "nextgen cyberpunk immersive sim!" on his Twitter/X profile bio;
• Digital Foundry member, Alexander Battaglia, managed to see it behind closed doors at the gamescom 2023 event, and was allowed by Neon Giant/Krafton's PR to talk about what he saw (hidden inside this S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 hands-on impressions video – the bit starts at the 5:58 mark):
  • It's being made on the Unreal Engine 5;
  • The gameplay and level design reminded Alex of the Deus Ex series, and "these kinds of games";
  • He was reluctant to call it an "immersive sim" when asked by colleagues, but reinforced the Deus Ex-like vibes he got from the description of the gameplay, level of interactivity, granular AI, open-ended but dense environments, etc. provided at the presentation.

 

[AltogetherAndrews]

Loved the look and feel of The Ascent, pretty psyched to see what they do with a larger canvas.

 

[March Climber]

This would have been a great surprise reveal. I guess whoever spoke on it was too excited to keep it secret.

I don’t blame them because it sounds promising.

 

[CrustyBritches]

The Ascent is a great game. I wouldn't have been disappointed by an expanded sequel, but I'm looking forward to whatever they're cooking up.

 

[Fredrik]

Can’t wait to see this, The Ascent had one of the most lived in game worlds I’ve seen. First person is a bummer though, I loved the top down twin stick gameplay in The Ascent, the world need more of those games.

 

[kyussman]

With Deus Ex all but dead a new immersive sim IP would be welcome.

 

[HL3.exe]

Looking forward to this one. Especially after the cancellation of the Deus Ex sequel recently.

 

[Ammogeddon]

They nailed the aesthetic with The Ascent so I look forward to seeing what they can do.

 

[Mister Wolf]

They have talent. I'm looking forward to it.

 

[Bernardougf]

Wow open world, immersion, ... so fresh

 

[samoilaaa]

Looking forward to this one. Especially after the cancellation of the Deus Ex sequel recently.

yeah , i was expecting it to be honest , even if they wouldnt have canceled it i doubt that it would have been as great as the other games , most of the talented people that worked on deus ex have moved on

 

[Beer Baelly]

 

[WitchHunter]

Acent was quite ok, though had a few shortcomings. Sigh another fucking open world game...

 

[skit_data]

The Ascent was a pretty fun local co op experience, will keep an eye on this but I wish they'd kept doing something similar to The Ascent because those types of games are few and far inbetween nowadays

 

[The Infectious Paradox]

I loved The Ascent til I got a game breaking glitch that made my screen go black. Hopefully they'll kill it here though bc that game was amazing.

 

[MrRibeye]

Good luck, I doubt they can pull it off.

 

[Duchess]

The Ascent had great atmosphere. If they can translate that into a FPS game, I'd be all in.

 

[ungalo]

sounds too ambitious for them, although The Ascent was impressive

 

[DirtyBast8rd]

Really liked The Ascent. Hope they can deliver on their next project.

 

[TheDarkPhantom]

I'm intrigued, we won't be getting that third Deus Ex game but maybe these devs can make something special.

 

[Bartski]

The Ascent was a pretty fun local co op experience, will keep an eye on this but I wish they'd kept doing something similar to The Ascent because those types of games are few and far inbetween nowadays

to be perfectly honest I'd be more happy to hear they're doing a sequel. The Ascent was great but imagine that game with meaningful full terrain destruction and collision physics.

 

[StueyDuck]

The ascent was fine, it wasn't the best of the co-op top down shooters but it was good enough.

Will be interesting to see what this turns out to be.