Usually those Nintendo Directs have PC related news for us, but today’s announcement was a bit of a treat. Loco Motive is a train-based detective game published by Chucklefish (who also founded Stardew Valley and Starmancer), and the debut game of developer Robust Games. There is a murder! And your task is to find out who committed the crime. The classic whodunnit content we’ll be playing next summer.
Set on a 1930s steam train, Loco Motive will let you control three different playable characters – a lawyer, an amateur detective and an undercover agent – as you try to Find out who killed a passenger. Oh, but all those characters are suspects too.
Katharine sez: “Investigators are suspects that make me think back to the first case of Chronicles of the great lawyer Ace – Feels like a great energy source of Phoenix Wright. ”
You can control the characters or choose to play the game in a point-and-click style, and there are plenty of puzzles to solve. At one point in the trailer, one character knees another in the balls. I don’t think it’s part of the puzzle, I just wanted to point it out because it made me chuckle a little.
Chucklefish continues to create and publish these stylized pixel art games (like Witchbrook, Inmost, Wargroove, etc.) The animation looks like it would go well with a fun train drama, I’m looking forward to this one.
Loco Motive arrives on PC via Steam, as well as Nintendo Switch, in the summer of 2020.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ll go listen Kylie Minogue’s Loco-Motion, because the name of this game gave me brain worms.
