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Published on August 31st, 2024 | by Adrian Gunning

Samurai Dinosaurs Roam Post-apocalyptic Japan in Floating Rock Studio’s Debut Game, ‘Kyōryū

Last year, New Zealand’s Floating Rock Studio caught the world’s attention with the viral hit trailer for Kyōryū – a glimpse into post-apocalyptic Japan dominated by genetically re-engineered dinosaurs. The proof-of-concept trailer announcing the development in parallel of a game and a TV series was greeted with 2.2 million organic views to date. Today, Floating Rock Studio revealed the first gameplay footage for their third person, or in this case, third dino, story driven adventure game in a new trailer. Players will control Tori, the little Samurai T-Rex, that is passionate about the extinct humans- directly inspired by Benjamin’s fascination for dinosaurs.

Watch the gameplay reveal teaser [here]

“The most exciting thing about making a game is being able to explore a unique world of dinosaurs, and actually BEING a dinosaur.” – Benjamin Mulot, Creator of Kyōryū

As seen in Unreal’s 2024 sizzle reel, the game is built in Unreal 5 to fully utilize high fidelity visuals not just within the game performance, but also to push the boundaries of the in engine cinematics. Punching above their weight, Floating Rock Studio’s tiny and powerful team of ~25 is bringing to life a bold vision of a narrative driven, artful world, of Kyōryū.

While we are working to get our Steam page for Kyōryū up and running, feel free to follow the crew on their development progress via Floating Rock Studio’s Discord serverYoutube channel or Instagram, where we’ll let you know as soon as our store page is live!


About the Author

agun@impulsegamer.com'

Adrian lives in Melbourne Australia and has a huge passion for gaming, technology and pop culture. He recently finished his a Bachelor of Journalism and is currently focusing on games journalism. When not writing and playing video games, Adrian can be found in Comics 'R' Us debating the pros of the DC Universe and cons of the Marvel Universe.



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