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\nBattletech, Shadowrun<\/a>, and The Lamplighters League developer Harebrained Schemes has announced its first project since parting ways with Paradox Interactive last year. It’s a “post-cyberpunk survival horror RPG” called Graft and it’s heading to PC.\n<\/p>\n

\nGraft’s story unfolds in the depths of a decaying continent-sized space station known as the Arc, home to forgotten technologies and unsettling wonders. Players must brave its horrors as they traverse “massive chasms, labyrinthine techno-catacombs, and self-replicating corridors”, facing enemies in combat – including “ancient experiments, monstrous abominations, and relentless agents of a mad AI” – and Grafting as they go.\n<\/p>\n

\nThis is pretty much exactly what it sounds like, requiring players to scavenge body parts from fallen opponents and graft them onto themselves in order to alter their physical form, gaining new abilities and powers as they do. But Grafting a part also infuses players with its previous owner’s memories, creating what Harebrained calls a “haunting interplay of survival, transformation, and self-discovery”.\n<\/p>\n

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Battletech, Shadowrun, and The Lamplighters League developer Harebrained Schemes has announced its first project since parting ways with Paradox Interactive last year. It’s a “post-cyberpunk survival horror RPG” called Graft and it’s heading to PC. Graft’s story unfolds in the depths of a decaying continent-sized space station known as the Arc, home to forgotten technologies and unsettling wonders. Players must brave its horrors as they traverse “massive chasms, labyrinthine techno-catacombs, and self-replicating corridors”, facing enemies in combat – including “ancient experiments, monstrous abominations, and relentless agents of a mad AI” – and Grafting as they go. This is pretty much exactly what it sounds like, requiring players to scavenge body parts from fallen opponents and graft them onto themselves in order to alter their physical…<\/p>\n

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