Is Nine Sols currently hiding an entirely new game within itself? Yes, but I don't know why yet

Red Candle Games embracing their roots

Remember past period erstwhile Nine Sols developer Red Candle Games started teasing… something… related to the Metroidvania? That thing leaned overmuch much into the studio's fearfulness origins, and arsenic it turns retired has developed into a full full ARG. I won't dive into each past item of said ARG, you tin spell down that rabbit spread yourself. However it has led to thing interesting: Red Candle Games person hidden an wholly caller crippled wrong Nine Sols.

To unlock this crippled wrong a crippled isn't peculiarly complicated. After making definite you person the crippled installed, caput to the Betas tab successful the game's properties. Here, conscionable benignant successful "shanhaiarchive" and a download volition commencement letting you play what is fundamentally a wholly different, comparatively short, first-person fearfulness game. According to the devs themselves, this unusual small crippled tasks you to prevention idiosyncratic called Yuuki - the beta subdivision itself is titled "yuukimindscape." It's besides worthy noting that this appears to beryllium a limited-time event, truthful if you mightiness privation to carve retired immoderate clip for it.

Also worthy noting is that this game-within-a-game whitethorn spoil immoderate communicative elements of Nine Sols, truthful if this has you truthful funny that you privation to play it adjacent if you haven't played the original, support that successful caput if you're peculiarly spoiler averse. I'll debar going into immoderate of that present truthful that you tin acquisition it each arsenic caller arsenic possible.

It's inactive not peculiarly wide if this is starring to thing else, similar a sequel oregon a spin-off of immoderate kind, but I'm profoundly into it. Nine Sols felt similar rather the alteration successful code for Red Candles Games, their archetypal 2 works Detention and Devotion some sitting successful the fearfulness genre, truthful I'm uncovering this rather a clever usage of their ain skills.

In immoderate case, Nine Sols is fractional disconnected connected Steam from present until October 6th arsenic portion of the autumn sales, truthful it's a bully clip to get connected committee the enigma train.