If you already feel like you have a full slate of gacha games to play, you may need to consider revising your itinerary: Silver Palace is coming, and it looks good.
Announced earlier today by Elementa and Silver Studio, this cross-platform outing – which is targeting consoles alongside PC and mobile – promises a Victorian-inspired open world built in Unreal Engine 5.
The gameplay looks most like Genshin Impact, with free character switching in combat and tons of elaborately dressed waifus to choose from. When navigating the sandbox you’ll be able to use a mythical steed which can both fly and drift around hairpin bends.
The official blurb provides a little more information on the plot: “Players will play the role of a Detective and embark on an adventure with a diverse group of partners to defeat the unknown enemies and unravel the mysteries in Silvernia, an industrialized metropolis built on the power of Silverium.”
In the gameplay trailer we do get a glimpse of some detective-style elements, like an interrogation which takes place after a brief stealth sequence. The combat looks largely familiar to what you’ll already find in Zenless Zone Zero and Wuthering Waves, but the boss fight against the flaming chariot is at least visually unique.
All in all there’s definite potential here, but a lot of our enthusiasm is coming from the art style, as the gameplay looks like it largely borrows from titles that already exist. Pre-registration is open on the game’s website right now, but no release date has been announced.
