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The Time I Have Left Gives You Six Tense Hours to Escape Its Neon-Lit Corridors

Main character Aline surrounded by the bleak world of The Time I Have Left.

As part of the just-concluded Future Games Show’s Spring Showcase, Spanish developers GROUND Game Atelier presented The Time I Have Left, a “time-driven exploration game with RPG elements and a big focus on storytelling.” This is the studio’s debut project, and it’s scheduled to release in 2023. The one-and-a-half minute trailer below hit me like a truck with its striking visuals and driving synth-pop rhythm.

The developers say they’re taking direct inspiration from PS1-era adventure games, and I can confirm this from having seen all the fixed camera angles in several shots. The stark, monochromatic neon lighting vaguely reminds me of Killer7, which is a game that more designers could stand to lift ideas from. With that said, I find the concept pretty original!

The player takes the role of Aline, a woman affected by a mysterious condition that marks her for certain death: The Miasma. Players will guide Aline in a race against time to escape from an enormous underground complex, Colony 7.

Players apparently only have six real-time hours to escape the facility in The Time I Have Left, which could pose a considerable challenge. Some noteworthy features include a plethora of secrets such as time-specific events, shortcuts, and hidden stories, just like the old-school adventure games. There will be “light and accessible RPG elements” that involve “resist[ing] attacks from grotesque visions of death” and timing movements to evade liminal space-dwelling creatures. Aline unlocks new abilities from completing the in-game database, giving you incentive to explore (while minding the clock of course).

You can wishlist The Time I Have Left on Steam ahead of the scheduled 2023 release. While you still have time, keep reading RPGFan for the latest news!

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Gio Castillo

Gio Castillo

Gio is a writer and editor with a deep fondness for role-playing and management games. He lives in the Philippines with two cats he loves dearly.

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