Empathy: Path of Whispers Release Date & Sneak Peek

Empathy: Path of Whispers will be the latest addition to the first-person adventure genre to land on Steam this month.

Iceberg Interactive, publisher of the Barrow Hill and Darkness Within series, has teamed up with a small developer for this first title from Pixel Night. This genre is full of classics, like Pathologic, Thief, Mirror’s Edge, Vampire: The Masquerade, and Dark Fall, but Iceberg Interactive is no stranger to unique titles, and Empathy: Path of Whispers is poised to be one of the most existential and surreal titles of the year. During the game, players will explore this stark world, not just as one character, but also with the memories, emotions, and experiences of previous inhabitants.

With strong emphasis on narrative and storytelling, this game also features puzzles and new areas to uncover and explore. Blinking against the light, you step into a world that seems broken apart, almost dead…yet, there is a pulse, beating faintly in the back of your mind. What has happened in this place void of people, but their memories echo in the silence? Where emotions appear as physical things, hanging in the air, just waiting for someone to reach out.

There’s no telling what we might find, or who we might meet, as we explore this haunting locale. What we do know is that Empathy: Path of Whispers will be available for purchase on Steam and other digital retailers come May 16th.

Official Press Release

Developer Pixel Night and publisher Iceberg Interactive are proud to announce the release of their first-person adventure game, Empathy: Path of Whispers – available on Steam and other digital retailers May 16, 2017. A new trailer revealed today offers a glimpse into the surreal and atmospheric world that awaits players of this unique adventure game.

In Empathy: Path of Whispers, players must explore a seemingly abandoned world through the emotions and memories of the people who once inhabited it, trying to restore the world’s lost balance as you journey through its past. With a strong focus on storytelling and exploration, players will find themselves in a strange world created from people’s emotions and memories, which can be manipulated and explored. Those lost memories are the key to rebuilding the crumbling world back to its former state, discovering its mysterious past and halting an impending apocalypse. Through its innovative narrative mechanics the game will challenge the player to explore and gain an understanding of the weird world they are traveling through.

“We can’t wait for players to experience the intriguing world of Empathy, which we’ve been crafting for the past few years.” says Anton Pustovoyt, lead developer at Pixel Night. “It’s an accomplishment we’re extremely proud of, and we hope players enjoy the unique experience they’re about to embark on.”

About Pixel Night

Pixel Night is a newly founded studio based in Stockholm, Sweden, consisting of talented individuals with broad backgrounds in all aspects of game development, from programming and art to design and writing. Their passion is exploring and expanding the limits of storytelling in games, creating atmospheric worlds that are full of secrets waiting to be discovered.

About Iceberg Interactive

Iceberg Interactive is an independent video game publisher founded in 2009 by an international group of games industry veterans and is located in Haarlem, The Netherlands. Staffed with avid gamers, Iceberg works closely with an international assembly of game developers, both midsize and indie. Garnering attention with acclaimed releases over recent years, including Killing Floor 2, Endless Space, Endless Legend, StarDrive 2 and Starpoint Gemini 2, the company has an exceptional line-up, including Oriental Empires, Starpoint Gemini Warlords, Dawn of Andromeda, Empathy, Conarium and Rising Storm 2: Vietnam – with further promising games in the pipeline.