Announcing RESISTOR!

A turbocharged narrative-driven adventure RPG featuring open-world exploration, stunt-infused racing, and explosive vehicular combat!

Build up your team and unravel a twisting story as you compete to take down an oppressive mega-corporation and its enigmatic director.

Check out our Announcement Trailer, as seen at the Future Games Show Summer Showcase:

The story so far…

In the year 2060 the world’s governments have long since destroyed one another and in their place stand self-contained city states presided over by a league of powerful corporations. Within the walls of these dense urban metropolises, citizens enjoy a life of comfort and excess, far removed from the harsh realities of the scattered communities that scrape a living in the endless desert wastes of the outside world.

To remain “competitive but friendly”, the corporations take turns hosting an annual racing tournament for the masses setting the finest teams, and bravest challengers, against one another in a series of exhilarating, high-speed death races. The ultimate prize? A one-way ticket to permanent citizenship, and a better life, inside the cities.

Desert Flower

Play as Aster, the only living child of the last great racer, who enters this year’s event sponsored by Dekker Industries with the goal of securing the vital healthcare needed to save their ailing mother. However, as the tournament unfolds, Aster soon realises that life beneath the glossy veneer of Ethan Dekker’s corporate utopia might not be as idyllic as it initially seems, and a race for the podium soon becomes a war to overthrow his oppressive regime.

Lowlifes in High Places

As one of the seven great corporations, tech giant Dekker Industries can trace its lineage back to the old days of the now defunct oil industry. The company currently oversees the activities of many subsidiaries within the confines of its steel-clad bastion, including the famous Diamond Motors. Its figurehead, Ethan Dekker (voiced by Mark Meer) is a consummate showman, and self-proclaimed ‘man of the people’, who relishes the prestige of hosting this year’s racing tournament. Yet behind his warm words and charismatic persona, lies the cold heart of a shrewd and ruthless businessman.

Start your Plasma-Engines

The annual racing tournament was initially conceptualised by the corporations as a means to remain ‘competitive but friendly’ with one another, with each individual city-state taking turns to host an annual event across a seven-year cycle. In reality, the violent races act as mindless entertainment to ensure that the masses remain suitably pacified.

With fossil fuels long extinct, racers utilise plasma-based engine technology to supercharge their rides and achieve blistering speeds. At the start of each race, sponsors provide racers with a limited quota of electrical energy, but never enough to see them across the finish line. To encourage ‘competitive racing’ cars are fitted with energy-sapping discs that draw electricity from scattered pylons, and the wreckage of incapacitated racers.

Grow your entourage

Aster inherits their father’s legendary custom STAGNUM, and enters Dekker’s tournament alongside childhood friend (and all-round racing superfan), Quin who acts as their first teammate in the early stages of the competition. As Aster rises through the rankings they will encounter a huge cast of characters and racers to recruit to their cause. Among these is the mysterious Collector, a hermit who possesses forbidden knowledge of the ‘old days’ and is drawn to Aster by their uncannily familiar racing talents.

RESISTOR is coming soon to Steam, make sure to wishlist and follow to keep up to date with all the latest news and information. We’ll have more to share about the project in the coming months, until next time!

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