Demo Release Date: 📆 Oct 17th, 2022
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Developer: Lookout Drive Games Location: New York, New York, USA Publisher: Lookout Drive Games
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BITTER SILVER - a choose-your-own-adventure, space western visual novel.
BITTER SILVER **is a Cowboy Bebop-inspired, space western visual novel adventure where you get to define your path as a bounty hunter in the far flung future of the Milky Way Galaxy.
You are Lucia Lopez - a charismatic, tired, ex-solider-turned-bounty-hunter. Traveling aboard your rickety spaceship, the Athena, you track down bounties to find an answer to a shocking curse that's been plaguing you your whole life.
Alongside you is your fun-loving, brash, half-human, half-alien, partner-in-crime (and love), Zap Matters, and your team's resident tech expert, a robotic talking cat, Hobbes.
It's up to Lucia, Zap, and Hobbes to journey to a city at the fringes of the Milky Way and track down the last three people that stand in your way of finding the answers to this curse Lucia has been seeking all her life.
And, uh, make some money along the way to pay for, well, everything else.
Kinda important too.
BITTER SILVER is developed by Lookout Drive Games, a New York City-based indie game studio focused on fun, inclusive, narrative-driven games, founded by Robert Pigott.
Before Bitter Silver, Lookout Drive Games released PORTRAIT OF A TEXAS FAMILY for PC and Mac in April 2022 which was covered by them, MSNBC, CBS News, and The Houston Chronicle.
A Kickstarter for Bitter Silver is coming August 20th, 2024.
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In Bitter Silver, you take the lead on deciding how to take down bounty targets with your team. Depending on your choices made throughout the game, you’ll be able to capture or kill bounties in a variety of ways that will play out in stylized, comic book panel cutscenes.
Inspired by the Mass Effect series, in Bitter Silver, you can define Lucia’s personality as a bounty hunter at certain points, deciding whether to be suave and dashing, brash and rogue, or a more collected team player. This can affect how both your crew and others in the world see and react to you throughout the story, branching it in directions both big and small.
Depending on your choice of Lucia’s backstory, you have different dialogue options available to you at certain points in the game. In this case, Lucia can join in with her partner Zap in dancing in the kitchen and bond with them more. Some of these options are even available if you have bonded with Zap and Hobbes enough in certain ways (indulging in, pushing against, or distancing yourself from controlling their behavior).
You’ll explore the interior of Lucia’s spaceship, the Athena, in the demo (and later in the full game) in a world meant to be evocative of a more lived-in, used future, whether it’s the Athena or a backwater colony on the edge of the Milky Way.
Over the course of the story, you’ll deepen your relationships with your companions, Zap and Hobbes, through optional side conversations with both of them before and after taking down bounties.
No two playthroughs will be alike as there are five different backstories the player can choose from for Lucia at the beginning of the game. Each affects the types of dialogue and character options Lucia can make throughout the story along with certain descriptive text, dialogue, and story moments only being seen depending on Lucia’s decided past.
The “action intro” for our three heroes before they take down a bounty target together.
Lucia Lopez - a seasoned soldier and bounty hunter and the playable main character of Bitter Silver (she/her, 31 Earth years old).
Zap can’t help but bust out some sick dance moves while they’re making new concoctions in the cramped kitchen of the Athena.
Lucia can take down bounties dead or alive (or otherwise) with her misfit crew, allowing action to be played out in stylized, comic book CGs.
Zap Matters - Lucia’s half-human, half-alien partner in crime (and love) in Bitter Silver (they/them, 212 Earth years old)
Hobbes - the pretentious, robotic tabby cat tech wiz of Lucia’s crew in Bitter Silver (he/him, 6 Earth cat years old)
Bitter Silver’s logo with a black background
Lookout Drive Games’ official logo with a transparent background
Bitter Silver’s logo with a transparent background
Lookout Drive Games’ logo with just the binoculars symbol