Buckle up, the developer of Cruelty Squad is making a game about thoughtcrime cops with mechs-
Creator Consumer Softproducts is back, folks, with a creatively upsetting and extremely intriguing idea for another hybrid FPS and Immersive Sim: Psycho Patrol R, a game that has you as a mech-piloting cop with some kind of almost-surely-upsetting superpowers.
Like Cruelty Squad, this is an immersive sim, and will emphasize “a wide variety of routes and approaches,” but Psycho Patrol R will be set in an open world and emphasize a lot more interacting with NPCs. I expect it’ll have much the same kind of weird systems going on as well. Screenshots show meters for things like Health, Radiation, Fatigue, Heat, Occlusion, and Orgone, of all things. I expect that it’s going to be a lot to deal with.
“Psycho Patrol R is a mecha FPS hybrid policing and punishment simulator set in the decayed state of Pan-Europa. You play as an officer of the European Federal Police, a V-Stalker pilot of Psycho Patrol, a special unit tasked with solving mental crime, among other things,” says Consumer Softproducts, the business name for solo developer Ville Kallio.
Consumer Softproducts’ previous game, Cruelty Squad, caused a real stir here at PC Gamer when it released in 2021. Reviewer…
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