Following two years of preproduction, recreation developer 10 Chambers lastly introduced its new heist recreation—Den of Wolves—Thursday throughout the 2023 Sport Awards. Set in 2097 in a extremely corrupt metropolis positioned in the midst of the Pacific Ocean, it’s, in response to narrative director Simon Viklund, the type of recreation “the place you are presupposed to really feel like a badass.” For Viklund, who additionally serves as the sport’s composer (he did the compositions for PayDay: The Heist and PayDay 2, too), which means “the music must, like, [grunt noise].”
True to its identify, Den of Wolves’ fictional metropolis is a spot the place mainly something is authorized so long as it’s finished within the pursuit of supercharged innovation and groundbreaking know-how. Think about PayDay meets Cyberpunk 2077 set in a metropolis that is a combination of Venice and Hong Kong. The idea is kind of completely different from 10 Chambers’ earlier work with horror recreation GTFO, nevertheless it structurally performs to the studio’s core energy: 4 individual co-op video games.
So much is on the road because the studio works on its second launch. 10 Chambers acquired an funding from Chinese language tech and leisure conglomerate Tencent to construct this recreation and increase from a small employees of round 10 folks to just about 100. Viklund emphasizes that the sport could have a extremely detailed setting however that avid gamers shouldn’t anticipate an open-world expertise. The general vibe, Viklund provides, pulls from a litany of sci-fi and thriller motion pictures, like Warmth and Decide Dredd (the Stallone one, not the 2012 reboot).
Whereas he loved engaged on horror recreation music for GTFO, Viklund is happy to maneuver away from that style and again to a PayDay-esque heist expertise. “My wheelhouse is that this energy fantasy kind of music,” he says. By no means performed that franchise earlier than? Give “Razormind” from PayDay 2 a pay attention any morning you overlook your espresso at house and wish a fast jolt of adrenaline.
So, what can gamers anticipate from the music in Den of Wolves? “So, there’s going to be components, in fact, which can be much like PayDay,” says Viklund. “However I’m eager on taking it some place else by way of tempo. Making it heavier, slower paced.” He additionally seems to be ahead to incorporating completely different components of percussion impressed by the Pacific Ocean setting.
For the reason that recreation continues to be in early growth and received’t be launched for some time, WIRED didn’t see any precise recreation footage throughout a latest preview occasion 10 Chambers held for the title. Just like the launch of GTFO, the corporate plans to launch the sport at first to gamers by Steam early entry. Den of Wolves does not have a launch date but, however PC avid gamers can anticipate receiving it earlier than their console counterparts.
Followers of GTFO could also be disillusioned that their recreation’s content material updates are ending, however Viklund factors to 10 Chambers’ first recreation as crucial for constructing the corporate’s confidence round design. “It was very releasing to have the ability to have a challenge the place we may have that ‘fuck it—we’ll simply do it’ kind of perspective,” he says. This sort of confidence is a driving drive behind 10 Chambers’ determination to develop one thing recent for gamers reasonably than counting on a franchise idea that already exists.