Yes, a debt collector simulator: we can get into the shoes of the debt collector and collect the debts our clients have accumulated…

Repo Man (stylized by its capitalized name, but we won’t follow it…) was first announced in 2019. At the time, Baldur Games was working on the immersive first-person simulator, but now a Polish indie team, Achara Studios, has expanded the concept a bit. The basics (the game’s name and the repo) are still there, but it has grown a bit. Our protagonist, Arthur Newstead, is a “noir man in a world of sun and neon”: his career is a dead end, his wife has left him, and his father left him with a 15 million debt after his death, so he returns home to his rotten hometown of San Alma in his veteran car.

“Will you pity the poor – and pay the price? Will you leverage the weak – and become the most hated man in town? Will you follow the letter of the law, seek accord, plot, and steal – or resort to violence? Will you ruin a good man to bring down an evil one? Will you choose a stranger’s child over your daughter? Argue and outsmart, exploit soft spots, inject ideas – all with plays represented by cards you collect over your journey in a game of negotiation where you pit deception against the trust, mercy against detachment, ridicule against fear.

Work your job by daylight and strike shady deals at night. Seek out your debtors in their homes, flush them out of their hideouts and ambush them at their favourite bar. Enter the premises, take inventory, appraise the assets – then claim them for the office or pocket and sell them to your criminal contacts. Try to tell the worthless baubles from the valuables as you wrest them from your debtors. Put up apartments, boats, and entire buildings for auction and sell them to the highest bidder,” says the game’s description on Steam.

Art Noveau inspires the world. It also features the Fae civilization, which is much older than humanity, but with the disappearance of magic, what remains of them are primarily drifters. There will be fighting in Repo Man, but the developers (who pitched their game proposal this year) have pointed out that Arthur won’t be as skilled at it, so you might hurt yourself trying to punch your opponents all the time.

A release date is unknown, but it won’t be coming soon.

Source: WCCFTech