Betrayer is set in the Virginia area during the beginning of England’s colonization of the New World in 1604 and is heavily influenced by the mystery of the lost colony of Roanoke. The unnamed, silent protagonist wakes up on a beach after a Spanish conquistador ship sinks the English ship he arrived on that was carrying passengers to the settlement, the sole survivor of the sinking. He encounters a mysterious lady cloaked in red, who communicates to him via messages attached to arrows with warning messages, and swiftly learns about a virus that’s ravaged the population of the settlement. Those who have not been killed have been mutated into savage monsters that will attack anything on sight. With no way of escape to the Old World, only a bow and his wits, the protagonist has no choice but to press onward and piece together the mystery of the lost colony.
CapnMikeM and MAINEac17 kick off August with a new episode of the Gamers In Beta podcast. One host ripped through a bunch of PS4 games while the other was consumed by a certain game which was in Alpha over the weekend. Beyond that the duo talk about upcoming games, news from the past week, and CapnMikeM conducts an interview with Last Limb Games, the developers of Organic Panic.
(CRiticalIndieGamer) Red - the colour of love, the colour of passion but most importantly, it is the colour of danger. Red is the only colour in Betrayer, a stylish first person action adventure game from developer Blackpowder Games.
Continue Play's Heather Williams takes a look at Blackpowder Games' Betrayer. "Betrayer is not a game that you would expect from the people who helped to create the F.E.A.R. series, but it does just enough right to make you think that they could be on the right path. Perhaps, with a little more refinement to its core systems, a sequel to Betrayer could be something rather special. As it is though, Betrayer is a gorgeous game with plenty of atmosphere – but also a lot of frustration."
