Dread Delusion is one of the games I’m most excited for: a lo-fi, indie take on a Morrowind-style weird fantasy world, the medieval societies clinging to a field of asteroids slowly orbiting a small red star. That world just got a little bit weirder thanks to the addition of Dread Delusion’s first new major region since launch, the Clockwork Kingdom.
The bones of this place have been here since Dread Delusion’s early access launch: an empty island with a unique, wintery look and its own soundtrack. Developer Lovely Hellplace wised up to the antics of boundary breakers like me jumping to the island with magic, and moved the kingdom’s home island out for the final release, forcing players to get there “the right way.”
The Clockwork Kingdom is a police state, you see, …