French indie developer Shiro Games have today launched Evoland 2: A Slight Case of Spacetime Continuum Disorder, their time-traveling, genre-spanning standalone follow-up to the 2013 indie hit Evoland. In celebration of this announcement, Shiro Games has released a launch trailer for Evoland 2. Mac and Linux versions are expected to follow in the coming months.Evoland 2 is available for $19.99/ €19.99/ £14.99 on Steam, GoG, and the Humble Bundle store.
A unique RPG adventure on a grand scale, Evoland 2 takes players on a truly epic journey through time and across a variety of classic and contemporary video game styles. Filled with homages, a wide variety of gameplay genres, and an innovative graphical style that evolves throughout the game, Evoland 2 is bursting with charm and character. Players can expect beat-’em-up battles, puzzles, platforming and much more.
“We’ve taken every measure to craft a memorable and fully-featured game with Evoland 2,” said Nicolas Cannasse,creator of the original first Evoland game and CTO of Shiro Games. “I’m overjoyed to say that we’ve not only fulfilled our original vision, but expanded on it considerably. Shiro Games has come very far since myself and two others created the original Evoland — we’re a tight-knit team of nine now — and we’re confident that both existing Evoland fans and newcomers alike will be charmed by the labour of love that is Evoland 2.”
Evoland 2 focuses on a hero who must protect the strange world he lives in by learning to understand events in different timelines, and in turn attempt to alter a grim future for the better. His adventures are filled with mystery and complexities set by traveling in time. Along the way, he will encounter dozens of unique characters, each with their own backgrounds and signature gameplay styles that are linked to the story and triggered by the player’s actions. With a strange secret buried within the core of this world affecting the course of time itself and powerful forces at play, can he change the world’s destiny or is it already set in stone?
Fans can learn more on the Shiro Games Twitter page, the Evoland Facebook page, and on the official Evoland 2 website.