Neural Shock Press Release - Releasing June 19th, 2024

Hardwired Studios :

Name:
Neural Shock

Steam Store Page:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2862970/Neural_Shock/

Genre:
Strategy / RPG

Subgenre:
Tower Defense / Action RPG

Planned Release Date:
June 19, 2024

Demo Release Date:
Available in Steam as of May 21, 2024

Short description:
In Neural Shock, you must cleanse the world of horrid and bloodthirsty creatures by utilizing turrets, traps, wits and weapons. Choose from different class choices with unique play styles and over 20 different turrets and traps.

Description:
Build, Fight, Improve, Obliterate. Create bloody mayhem by building turrets and traps in strategic positions and fighting waves after waves of ferocious clones and creations of immoral research. As you gain experience in the battlefield, improve and develop your characters and weapons to get more and more powerful and decimate your enemies.

Combining the classic Tower Defense gameplay, graphic pixel-art violence and elements of character and team building action RPGs set within a dark, futuristic sci-fi world, Neural Shock brings an engaging experience which caters both to short and long play sessions to experience at your own pace. In Neural Shock, you have a controllable main character to aid your turrets in battle.

Backstory:
In 2304, CyTech, a scientific research corporation and defense manufacturer revolutionized warfare after discovering ways to integrate artificial neural networks into humans, allowing soldiers to rapidly develop extraordinary abilities that would far exceed the opposition. However, after multiple generations had been tested in combat with great success, one generation found a way to surpass all other generations by multitudes by altering the genetic composition of the subjects. The subjects started experiencing mutations in their bodies, and over time were found to have experienced a rapid evolution into completely different beings.
This generation was found to be much more aggressive and hostile even to the creators than previous generations, and quickly the specimen, viewing themself as a completely different and superhuman race, started to revolt against humanity and create clones of themselves to achieve superiority and control of the Earth.

In the year 2325, you as part of mercenaries from Armorion, a private military contractor, were tasked to infiltrate the main research facility of CyTech, to eliminate the rebelling specimens and end the production of new clones. The defense systems of the facility were dismantled and stripped down by the specimens, but the defense network is still connected and you are able to rearm the defenses by building turrets and traps into the existing defense pods. You will need to clear out the facility's sectors one by one and ensure the defenses are able to hold out any hostile specimens.

Key Features:

Unique tower defense missions in an engaging, dark and futuristic world, complemented with captivating side objectives that require razor-sharp senses and wits to complete in the most optimal ways.
 

Tens of different ways for each monster to meet their maker, ranging from getting shredded, electrocuted, burnt to a crisp, melted to a pile of goo, and many others, visualized and animated with crunchy pixel art graphics that don't hide any ounce of blood or drop of gore. Let your creativity run wild as you discover new ways to eradicate the murderous cretins that run amok in this vicious world.
 

Pick your favorite class, delve into the monster-filled world and exterminate the horrid creatures to level up and create your optimal build by specializing in different weapon, turret and trap masteries and selecting the best supporting abilities for your playstyle. Along with building and improving your turrets, you are able to control your main character and aid the turrets in killing the enemies. As you progress further, you'll gain access to new team members to aid you in the fight in the battlefield, whom you can also level up and improve as you best see fit.

Other Notes:
The game was made with a custom game engine, which started as a personal software development project in early 2023.

Content Rating:
Mature content advisory: Violence, blood and gore in pixel-art form

Links:
Website - https://hardwiredgamestudios.com/
Steam Store Page - https://store.steampowered.com/app/2862970/Neural_Shock/
Release Trailer: https://youtu.be/I4v2NwgtC4k

Press Contact:
Official: [email protected]
Gmail: [email protected]