From the creator of Rivals and Echo Beach, music detective recreation Riley & Rochelle is impressed by an imaginative query: What if ’90s music legends Celine Dion and Elliott Smith met and fell in love? Riley & Rochelle, after all, isn’t about Dion or Smith — it’s about Riley and Rochelle, naturally, two fictional ’90s musicians from two very totally different genres.
Sheinman Games founder Tim Sheinman instructed Polygon he was listening to a podcast on the 1998 Oscars — the place Dion was nominated for Titanic’s “My Heart Will Go On,” and Smith for Good Will Hunting’s “Miss Misery,” — when he received the concept: “What… if they fell in love?”
In Riley & Rochelle, the participant will hearken to the musicians’ work, learn their journals, and analysis their lives to drag collectively who they have been and the way they fell in love within the Nineties. There are clues all over the place: throughout the unique music itself and in different paperwork and journal entries. It’s a brand new tackle the music detective recreation style that Sheinman’s been iterating on for years in video games like Rivals, which follows an alt-country band, and Echo Beach, the place music is unlawful and tracked on-line.
Riley & Rochelle doesn’t have a launch date simply but, however its Steam web page has it listed as “coming soon” on Windows PC and Mac. Sheinman mentioned it’s anticipated earlier than 2023. It’ll value $14.99.
