Focus Home Interactive and Germany-based developer Deck13 have just detailed their next title, The Surge, revealing information regarding the game's story alongside some evocative concept art.
The sci-fi action-RPG is said to feature "innovative combat" and "an original character progression system based on modular upgrades". Here's what the studio had to say about the game's narrative:
Set in a heavily dystopian future as Earth nears the end of its life, those who remain in the overpopulated cities must work to survive as social programs become saturated by an ageing population and increasing environmental diseases.
As the intelligence of technology incrementally increased over the years, many jobs for the human race had been made redundant, forcing Earth's citizens to head out into the suburbs seeking labor, aided by exoskeletons to improve their efficiency. The world of The Surge offers a very grim vision of the future, where the evolution of our technology, our society and our relation with the environment led to a decadent state of the Human civilization.
A previously released teaser image.