Antioch: Scarlet Bay

Release Date: November 25, 2022

Adventure, detective, indie games, co-op, gamebook, text, 80s, multiplayer, singleplayer, internet

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A text adventure game focusing on co-op experience and investigation-related aspects. It was created by Mi-Clos - a French developer. The year is 1983 and the plot is set in the titular Antioch - a fictional town surrounded by sea and mountains. The game follows the adventures of two detectives working on an exceptionally complicated case.

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Antioch is a cooperative detective adventure developed for mobile devices with AND and iOS systems. The game was developed by French studio Mi-Clos, the authors of Out There.

Plot

The action takes place in 1983 in the titular fictional city of Antioch - dark and surrounded by the sea and mountains. The game tells the story of two detectives conducting an extremely complicated investigation. Events take place in a small, open-structure world, where, apart from the main plotline, we can also do numerous side quests.

Mechanics

Antioch, released on AND and iOS platforms, tells its plot through paragraphs. While playing, we follow the plot presented in the form of a text enriched with numerous graphics and animations. At the same time, we regularly have to make important decisions that influence the further development of the plot. All this was done in a detective convention and making the right choices requires us to gather evidence, clues and testimonies.

Antioch has one key element that distinguishes it from most adventure games. The production is focused on a cooperative multiplayer mode for two people. Each player controls one detective, and their interactions, joint decisions and cooperation during the interrogations shape the course of the story and its ending. There is also a single player mode, in which we are accompanied by an AI-controlled partner.

Last updated on March 13, 2019