80 Days, developer Inkle’s sublime steampunk spin on Jules Verne’s classic travel story, will be heading to Switch on 1st October, and the studio’s equally breathtaking language-themed archaeological adventure, Heaven’s Vault, is coming to the console next year.
80 Days, if you’ve not yet had the pleasure, is an illustrated slice of interactive fiction that takes Jules Verne’s classic globe-trotting story as a starting point for its own glorious adventure. With Phileas Fogg’s daredevil wager underway, players – in the role of Fogg’s ever-faithful servant Passepartout – are tasked with charting a course around the globe, navigating between more than 170 possible destinations by air, land, or sea.
Each city stop-off give players a chance to shop and trade (acquiring items that might prove useful in the future, or exchanging them for always-handy cash) or to explore each vividly imagined location, gathering information, enjoying the sights, or perhaps even indulging in a fleeting romance or two.
Source: Eurogamer Sublime globe-trotting steampunk adventure 80 Days heading to Switch next month