Portraying a music-driven journey of self-discovery, the game transports players to a realm where music, magic, and memories take on a whole new meaning...

After waking up in a strange, puzzling world where memories roam free like ghostly echoes, a young woman must use her musical gifts to find her way home. Beset with psychological pain, she must make peace with her past and learn to live in the moment in order to deal with unpleasant physical manifestations of days long gone. Equipped with her journal and violin – and guided by music – the girl must protect herself from the masked creatures that inhabit this land. In fact, they may have a deeper connection with her own memories ...

In Distortions, you’ll experience a breathtakingly beautiful world filled with caves, mountains, and rivers. Can’t find a way through? Shape the terrain around you with music, and hunt for clues to shed light on the next waypoint. With the aid of a strange masked gentleman, you must uncover new memories and eventually solve the mystery of the journal’s unknown author to overcome your past and open the door to a happier future.

The game is influenced by games like Shadow of the Colossus and Silent Hill 2, and movies like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Once.

To be released in chapters, the game shows thoughtful attention to artistic design and visual elements over it’s 3D sceneries. The team also focused on the game’s story as one of the main features, with a script that invites the player to travel alongside the main protagonist in a surprising narrative experience. Another feature is the soundtrack, with licenced songs of bands from different countries, as “Dredg”, “Labirinto” and “Hopesfall”.

“Distortions is a music-based project that goes well beyond game mechanics and the world itself. Music has driven the whole concept forward, before a single art asset was put in place. From the start, we wanted to make a game that would use music as the connective tissue between narrative, environment, and language. Before development began, we researched all the types of music Distortions will feature, what kind of ‘vibe’ they provide, and what stories they tell. With all this prior research, the rest was actually pretty straightforward!,” said Among Giants CEO Thiago Girello.

Key Features

• Compelling story about broken relationships; how far would someone go in search of a memory?
• A vast open world waiting to be explored. The player has the choice of how deep he wants to go.
• A dynamic system to play a violin. Shape the world with your music in real time.
• With your violin, fight or change the environment in order to elude strange masked creatures.
• Enter a journey to tame the masked, colossal monster.
•  Two worlds that coexist. You can travel between them in real-time.
• Play music together with other characters.

Distortions is scheduled for release in early 2018.