After years of development, our puzzle adventure game Claire de Lune is finally here.
Claire de Lune is a first person puzzle game set in a science fiction universe. It features platforming, adventure puzzles, action sequences, and a great storyline performed by tremendously talented voice actors.
Our last game Immortal Empire originally released in 2009, and was a pixel-art 2D isometric tactics game at 800x600 resolution. It was written with our custom Immortal Engine. Claire de Lune has seen that same engine take massive strides forward, now driving a fully 3D first person game at 4k resolution with high visual fidelity, released nearly 12 years later in 2021. It's hard to imagine that there's actually a sizeable piece of the same engine underneath. I can only surmise that our next game will be injected straight into your brain and played through neural impulses, but unfortunately you'll have to wait until 2023 to play it.
Like Immortal Empire, Claire de Lune is a somewhat challenging game. It's not a souls game, but you'll die a few times for sure in those early levels as you're sorting out the puzzles or dodging alien spiders. Midway through the game, the platforming tapers off. You'll be dying less and puzzle solving more. Judging from the streamers who have played the game to the end, they seem to be finishing it in about 10-12 hours.
Overall, I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out. There's still the odd bug or little thing I'd like to tweak, and maybe it needs an easy-mode, we'll see. Regardless, I'm so proud of everyone here at Tactic who dedicated years of their lives to this project. It represents a staggering amount of energy, commitment, and patience. A lot of love has been poured into this one.
To the players, I sincerely hope you enjoy our game. I hope you appreciate the challenge, the mysteries, some fun facts and the odd dad joke. I hope that some of you will dive deeper and figure out what this whole story is really all about. Mostly, I hope you have fun. In the end, this game was made for you; the gamers who want to be challenged, and who want to immerse themselves in another world for a time.
Till next time,
Jesse