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Presskit

Fact Sheet:

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Developer:                   Pipelayers Guild

Release Date:             TBA

Platform:                     Windows

Price:                            13 USD

Availablility:                 Downloadable at Itchi.Io (Steam in                                       future)

Languages:                  English

ESRB:                          TBD

Press Contact:           WhatLurksAbove@hotmail.com

Social:                          Facebook.com/Whatlurksabove

Itch.Io Demo Link:     https://whatlurksabove.itch.io/what- lurks-above

Logos:

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Description:

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What Lurks Above is a psychological narrative experience where you play as Vanessa, a girl who struggles with depression and the never-ending battle with the voice inside her head telling her shes not good enough.  

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Explore the mind and reality of someone struggling with that constant voice trying to bring them down and ruin their day-to-day life in a captivating enviorment and story that keeps you wondering what will happen next. 

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Besides the unique, exciting and immersive gameplay What Lurks Above offers an important look into a topic that is not discussed enough  openly and gives food for thought to most of us in relation to our friends and family around us.

Key Features:

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  • Captivating and immersive story that keeps player wanting to know more.

  • Multiple choices for dialouge and decisions. How do you deal with the pressure that Vanessa struggles with?

  • Multiple collectables and explorable areas that will reveal more of Vanessas backstory.

  • Beautiful and unique scenery with variating enviorments and levels that keeps the game exciting and fresh.

  • Engaging dialouge and soundtrack that further impoves the experience.

  • The game wishes to bring attention to an issue that many struggle with today and present it in a new and intuitive way.

Company History:

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​Pipelayers Guild was founded in the autum of 2017 and What Lurks Above is our first official game. The team members came togheter as a group of friends studying gamedesign togheter who wanted to make an amazing story-focused game.

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Everyone on the team has previously worked on multiple projects with very varying scopes and genre. Our shared passion for games is what makes us a unique team who burns for what we do. And what is it we want to do? Well, it is to bring amazing stories and universes to life for the players to experience. And in What Lurks Above we wanted to take that even further by focusing around a real life topic that we feel needs to be discussed more openly, but obviosuly also respectfully.

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Developer Update Episode 1:

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Fact Sheet
Description
Key Features
Company History
Videos and Trailers
Screenshots
Concept Art and Illustrations
Music
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