Fallen Leaf, Black Drakkar Games, and publisher Dear Villagers have set a date for the sci-fi horror that the Xbox Series is missing.

Here’s the game’s overview: “Set aboard a deserted mining facility on Mars, players must solve the mystery of the missing crew, make crucial decisions, and escape the compound. To commemorate the release date’s announcement, the developer has put together a new Welcome to Fort Solis trailer, offering a tour of the titular mining station, ranging from its barracks to its labs to its greenhouse. Much care was taken to create a facility that could believably host a crew yet remain coolly indifferent enough to drive one mad. Fort Solis is the product of corporate industry, a massive and inhospitable base amidst the Martian desert’s blood-red wasteland.

Fort Solis has you assume the role of engineer Jack Leary as he spends the longest night of his life on an isolated mining base on Mars. Explore Fort Solis station at your own pace, gathering clues from its bunkers, labs, crew quarters, and harsh, stormy surface to understand what enigmatic fate befell its inhabitants. As the night grows longer, events escalate, spiral out of control, and the mystery as to what’s going on deepens.

Utilizing the power of Unreal Engine 5, Fort Solis offers an intricately immersive setting in the deepest reaches of space. Featuring a first-class crew that includes Red Dead Redemption 2 lead Roger Clark, Troy Baker (The Last of Us, Death Stranding), and Julia Brown (The Last Kingdom, World on Fire), Fort Solis grounds you in its brutal science-fiction drama with no camera cuts, load times, or HUD. Inspired by titles like Firewatch and Until Dawn, Fort Solis offers a hybrid media piece emphasizing narration and immersion. Told across four chapters, Fort Solis can be binged in one intense session or played chapter by chapter like a Netflix series.”

Fallen Leaf’s game director, James Tinsdale, said in a press release: “With Fort Solis, we wanted the setting to be a character. Sci-fi horror hosts many of cinema’s greatest, most chilling settings. Like Alien’s Nostromo or Solaris’ titular vessel, we wanted Fort Solis to create its hostile tone, a derelict mining station barraged by a sandstorm. The environments in Fort Solis are integral to the story we’re telling, so bringing it to life was among our top priorities.”

Fort Solis will be released on August 22 for PlayStation 5 and PC (Steam). Troy Baker announced it in the second video.

Source: Gematsu