Penguin Colony Launches As Cosmic Horror Adventure From ORIGAME DIGITAL
The game uses Lovecraft's Antarctic framework but adds a Maori guardian group called Kaitiaki alongside the Nazi expedition, which suggests ORIGAME DIGITAL is not treating the source as a straight adaptation.
Reporting from 1 source: 4Gamer.net.
Penguin Colony, an indie cosmic horror adventure from Australia-based ORIGAME DIGITAL, launches on October 16 for Switch 2 and PS5, with those versions arriving at a later date. The game draws on H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness. Players control penguins observing a 1939 Nazi expedition's madness and self-destruction, and can switch between penguin types with different abilities.
The player is not an investigator or a survivor. The role is a penguin living on the ice, watching a 1939 Nazi expedition destroy itself. Exploration lets you switch consciousness between penguin types: gentoo penguins for speed in water, rockhopper penguins for ledges, and chicks for narrow gaps. Blizzards and open ice fields shape the routes.
Lenval Brown, known for narration in Disco Elysium, provides the voiceover. The main story runs a few hours, and a group called Kaitiaki, meaning guardian in the Maori language, enters the plot alongside the expedition.
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