It’s a new action role-playing title (that borrows other genre elements) from the same tight-knit core team that gave the world Bastion in 2011, and Transistor in 2014. Kasavin is talking about the studio’s next game – Pyre – which comes out worldwide on July 25 after close to three years in development. “We didn’t set out to make a bigger game for the sake of it, but the larger cast of characters ended up requiring this, in order for the story to feel fulfilling and complete.”

The writing is what makes the game so memorable.“It’s our biggest game, with more characters and more ways to play than either of our previous games,” Greg Kasavin, creative director at Supergiant Games, tells Gadgets 360. Even if you lose a rite, the story takes that into account and keeps progressing.

Without spoiling anything, you can even influence every characters fate, including the enemy factions because there's no game over screen. Party members will remember past conversations, they'll remember if you sided with them or not, and everyone will grow as characters together. Even though the overarching story moves along a predetermined path, you get to do a lot of decision making along the way which have very real impacts. The lore is richly detailed and well realized which makes the characters struggles believable. Theres many twists in here also which reminded me of games such as Final Fantasy X and Metal Gear Solid 2 where the story really subverts your expectations. The writing is really well done and evoked a lot of emotional moments. Cast down into the Downside from the Commonwealth, your only hope at getting back home is to participate in the Rites, a divine set of rituals to determine who is worthy of redemption. The story and writing is arguably the best aspect of Pyre.

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