Alien Haruo-kun Steam Page Opens Ahead of Undecided Release
The systems on display are survival busywork with a twist: clones can be revived after death, but each collapse degrades their genes and permanently lowers their abilities, which ties a resource-management loop to the story's premise about manufactured people.
Reporting from 2 sources: Denfaminicogamer, Game Spark.
On October 19, the Steam store page opened for Alien Haruo-kun, a third-person shooter from developer Moyashi Giken and publisher Wakuwaku Games. The game is set in a world where many cities have sunk beneath the sea after war and climate change. Players manage two Navy members, Kuratsuki Kaede and Kuroishi Kozue, on a mission to find a mysterious object called Haruo-kun. Release date and price are undecided.
The two playable characters are clones, as most humans in this setting are. Death is not the end, but it costs something: each collapse degrades their genes, and the more times they go down, the more their abilities decline. Inside the abandoned facility, defense systems and experimental animals are still active, and players choose between slipping past them or fighting through with guns.
Basic upkeep carries real weight. Skip food and the two tire quickly and stop running. Overeat and they vomit. Long explorations require a toilet stop first. Some cutscenes are fully voiced, and the store page supports Japanese.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.