Other Ocean Opens 4 Penny Coffins Beta for Eight Players
Other Ocean, the studio behind Project Winter, is testing a detective-versus-killer format where the evidence itself is unreliable, which is a different design problem than the survival distrust of its earlier game.
Reporting from 1 source: Game Spark.
Other Ocean Interactive has opened an open beta for 4 Penny Coffins, a werewolf-style competitive mystery game for up to eight players. The beta runs until October 13 and includes a solo and co-op Magistrate mode and a PvP Ripper mode at no cost. Set in Whitechapel, London in 1888, one player becomes the Ripper while the others investigate. A PC Steam release is planned with Japanese language support.
The open beta is free and runs until October 13, with sign-ups handled through player.gg. Other Ocean Interactive is releasing a beta build and patching bugs in parallel, so updates may arrive during the test window.
The game plays out over three phases: the Ripper commits a murder, the investigation side gathers evidence at the scene and interrogates suspects, and a judgment phase follows. The Ripper plants fake evidence, bribes witnesses, and can at times transform into a giant monster and attack people. Players have to weigh whether the clues they gathered can be trusted at all.
A PC release on Steam is planned, with Japanese language support.
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