PLAYED BY EAR
Edge|March 2022
From interactive podcasts to 3D RPGs: why the growing audiogame scene is demanding that you listen in
Alex Spencer
PLAYED BY EAR
Alexandra is surrounded. She waits for the right moment, then jabs right with her sword, finding her target just in time for another attack to come in from the left. She holds up the shield to take the impact, then counters. The sound of an opponent crumpling to the ground, and everything goes quiet again, except for the voice of a trusty companion guiding her through the wilderness, back to her rightful throne.

Archetypal stuff, no doubt. Except that Alexandra, your player-character in The Vale: Shadow Of The Crown, is blind – and accordingly, the screen in front of us is all but blank. A few coloured particles glimmer in the dark, like dust motes caught in a spotlight, the only visual indication of the level we’re moving through.

Last December, The Vale shared a category at The Game Awards with the likes of Far Cry and Forza Horizon, titles with considerably larger budgets and teams. “I think the nomination represents the sum of The Vale’s parts,” game director and Falling Squirrel founder Dave Evans reflects. “The fact that it’s a very big game, it’s a very ambitious game for the genre of all-audio. But there’s no one mechanic or thing we did that I could point to and say, ‘This is solely unique as a mechanic or innovation.’”

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