Developer inXile Leisure has revealed extra particulars about its upcoming title – Clockwork Revolution. Members of the sport’s improvement group, specifically sport director Chad Moore, sport producer and studio founder Brian Fargo, revealed in an interview with Xbox Wire how the sport will permit gamers to make significant choices that additionally find yourself having penalties.
Within the interview, Fargo and Moore each touched on their historical past with engaged on cult-classic RPGs like Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura, and the way video games like that additionally helped inXile’s works to additionally get essential acclaim. With regards to Clockwork Revolution, nonetheless, the duo spoke about issues like determining how one can make use of slower pacing for dramatic impact, and the way participant selections will matter.
“It was essential for us to talk on to core roleplaying followers and present what this sport actually is,” mentioned Fargo. “We sluggish issues down for a second, let the dialog breathe, and present the techniques at work. That scene with Alfie isn’t simply dramatic, it units the tone. This can be a sport that may be brutal. Not simply in fight, however within the selections you make and the way the world responds. It’s not nearly cinematics, it’s in regards to the sort of deep, reactive RPG we like to construct, and that our gamers anticipate.”
Moore spoke in regards to the sport’s tackle multi-person conversations, which might typically ship gamers down fully new dialogue selections relying on the characters contain. Utilizing the instance of Morgan, Errol and Alfie, he defined that the participant’s choice can change how issues end up.
“It additionally highlights our multi-person conversations,” defined Moore. “Some conversations may have a number of folks concerned, and who you select to talk to can ship you down totally different dialogue branches. This may wildly change the place a dialog finally ends up going. Within the case of the trailer, Morgan selected to talk to Errol as an alternative of Alfie, regardless of apparent warnings, and that resulted in poor Errol’s dying. So, should you select to go down that path, Errol is then a personality that gained’t be in the remainder of the sport.”
“Conversations have significant penalties, and I feel it’s value mentioning we’ve got actually evil dialog choices,” continued Fargo, following up on Moore’s factors. “You see just a few of these play out within the trailer. In case you’re providing evil choices, they should truly repay and have significant penalties to ensure that the nice selections to really feel good. In any other case, you’re not actually taking part in the best way you wish to play.”
Clockwork Revolution acquired a brand new trailer throughout Xbox Video games Showcase 2025 the place we acquired a superb take a look at the title’s clockpunk setting and environments. The trailer additionally confirmed off the character customisation choices accessible each over the course of gameplay, in addition to by way of the character creator. We additionally acquired to see fight, weapon customisation, and even the multi-person conversations that Moore and Fargo spoke about.
Clockwork Revolution doesn’t but have a launch date. The sport is in improvement for PC and Xbox Collection X/S.
