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Lively Matter is an upcoming multiplayer/online co-op being developed for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox X|S, that is ready to launch in 2025. Described as a sensible tactical shooter, it can support each PvPvE and PvP modes. Players will have the ability to make use of authentic weapons as they utilize a still-as-yet fully researched substance to traverse time and multiple realities while war spreads across the multiverse. As players and their teams make their way across the size they’ll witness how the substance not only allows interdimensional travel but additionally the way it seems to tear, tear, and warp things around them. Gaijin Entertainment is its publisher and Matter Team is developing it. PC hardware requirements haven’t yet been revealed.
Per Official Announcement:
“Introducing a brand new mind-bending tactical shooter set in a fractured multiverse!
You’ll play as an operative trapped in a time loop, returning to the identical point after each death. You’ll select your loadout and enterprise into quantum-unstable zones wealthy with “lively matter” — a substance able to warping and ripping the very fabric of space and time. You’ll face opponents from other timelines, physics-breaking anomalies, and mysterious supernatural entities. Your mission: extract lively matter, collect loot, and evacuate safely before the zone ceases to exist together with the whole lot inside it.
Lively Matter is a sensible hardcore shooter (each PvPvE and PvP modes will probably be available) with authentic weapons and equipment, set in an odd chaotic world inspired by SCP. Objects from other timelines may be randomly transferred by lively matter into quantum-unstable zones, allowing players at their protected point base to repeat items from these other timelines. Lively Matter’s arsenal is predicated on real military technology and tactics, as war appears to be the one constant across the multiverse.”
A growing genre
This title appears to be the newest addition in a growing genre of games where players are either trapped in time loops, like Death Loop, or reality-altering circumstances just like the Alan Wake/Control universe. Other titles that include alternate reality/dimension game mechanics are The Medium, INDUSTRIA, Atomic Heart, and the upcoming steampunk-inspired Clockwork Revolution,
