FrameOver's The 9th Dragon Puts Voxel Kowloon Behind A Fistfight
FrameOver is developing The 9th Dragon, a story-driven action game set in 1980s Hong Kong's Kowloon Walled City. The player is Rookie, a new member of an elite police commando unit working under veteran officer Mei.
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Why it matters
The pitch leans on the Walled City itself as the level design, with rooftops, hidden passages, and cramped apartments doing as much work as the combat system, and story choices that decide whether Rookie saves residents or abandons them.
Key Facts
- FrameOver is developing The 9th Dragon, a story-driven action game set in 1980s Hong Kong.
- The player controls Rookie, a new member of an elite police commando unit in Kowloon Walled City.
- Rookie works in a squad led by Mei, a veteran officer who knows the underworld.
- Combat includes punches, kicks, combos, blocks, parries, dodges, stealth kills, and pistols, shotguns, and flamethrowers.
- A release date is to be announced, and a demo is available on the Steam store page.
Combat is hand-to-hand, with punches, kicks, combos, blocks, parries, and dodges, plus stealth kills and pistols, shotguns, and flamethrowers. A release date is to be announced, and a demo is available on the Steam store page.
The 9th Dragon hands the player a squad led by Mei, a veteran officer who knows the underworld, and then puts the mission in tension with the people living in it. Choices such as letting an enemy go or finishing them off, saving residents or abandoning them, and returning found money or pocketing it feed into Rookie's growth and the ending.
Fights move across rooftops and between buildings in a maze-like city, with bosses carrying their own abilities, fighting styles, and weapons. FrameOver has not set a release date. A demo is on the Steam store page.
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