the swedish company Avalanche Studios (Just Cause, Mad Max) has generated great expectations in recent times with the announcement of an exclusive title for Xbox consoles. We talk about smuggler, which is said to have a large cooperative component and that will allow us to explore a huge open world while carrying out all kinds of hits and robberies. However, the studio is working on something else, a rogue like game whose code title is Jackdaw and its final name would be Ravenbound: Tales of Avaltas the well-known journalist Tom Henderson has pointed out.
According to this informationRavenbound will take us to the fictional world of medieval aesthetic Avalt and our task will be to free the world from the enemies that have invaded the lands. The player will be able transform into a raven to explore the areas from above and thus find information about the enemies. When we die, we must start over from the beginning by choosing between one of the three “raven containers”, each with its own abilities and characteristics. As in almost any roguelike, between game and game we can buy improvements with the experience we have obtained from previous runs so that our luck will be different in the next one.
Contraband has been in development since 2018
The source assures that this Ravenbound: Tales of Avalt could be described as a kind of Dead Cells but open world. Although there are no certainties about it, it seems that the development of the game is going well and that we could officially know it soon. Meanwhile, Contraband hasn’t appeared at the Xbox & Bethesda Showcase 2022, which pretty much ensures that will not go on sale in the first half of 2023. We still have to wait to find out more about him.