Aoca Game Lab Brings ARIDA 2 Demo To Brasil Game Show 2026
The studio's own Bahia base and the Canudos massacre in its backstory are the reason the project exists, which is why Pereira frames the game as a way to tell what happened to his hometown rather than as a general history lesson.
Reporting from 1 source: 4Gamer.net.
Aoca Game Lab exhibited ARIDA 2: Rise of the Brave at Brasil Game Show 2026, held at Distrito Anhembi in São Paulo from October 9 to 12. CEO Filipe Pereira described a survival adventure set in northeastern Brazil at the end of the 19th century, centered on the War of Canudos. The demo shows changes made in the five months since gamescom latam 2026.
The booth was a joint exhibition of four titles themed on their own country's culture. ARIDA 2 returns to the sertão, the arid backlands of the northeast, and to the village of Canudos, which the army destroyed in 1897 after the government treated its residents as a rebel force.
Pereira said the residents shared everything, that the village grew, and that the government objected to their not paying taxes before the massacre. He said he gets goosebumps explaining it because it happened in his hometown. The demo opens with a message from the studio stating the story is fiction but was inspired by real events.
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