Developer Variable State recently unveiled their next project, a first person interactive drama called Virginia. It’s inspired by such 90s TV classics as The X-Files, Twin Peaks and The Outer Limits — all shows I grew up watching, as I’m sure many of you did too — and set in a charming low-poly version of the eponymous state that’s brimming with “loners, has-beens, creeps and beatniks.” The game follows a recently graduated FBI agent and her partner as they investigate the disappearance of a young boy.
According to the developer, their goal was to “create a game which captured their mixture of the inexplicable, the absurd and the mundane,” where “nothing is quite what it seems.” I already love it.
Between this and Ethan Carter, mystery fans have a lot to look forward to over the coming year.
Virginia is slated to release on PC in 2015.
