Look, I have my fair share of problems with Palworld, but to give credit where credit is due, after announcing their foray into publishing earlier this year, they’ve lined up a suite of games. Dead Take, a psychological horror complete with Baldur’s Gate 3’s Neil Newbon and Final Fantasy 16’s Ben Starr, launched earlier this year, Truckful just looks like a delight, and now there’s Vision Quench, a game for freaks like me who like it when fantasy gets a bit techy.
How do I begin to explain Vision Quench? In genre terms, it describes itself as an “online co-op dark fantasy looter shooter,” but I never think genres are a great selling point. The about section is a bit more tantalising. You find yourself in a place called the Green Tower, which you must climb to get the Sweepstakes Code. Along the way, you’ll need to collect various cursed commodities to perform “the ritual,” or alternatively consume them to gain certain abilities.
The whole setting is suitably fantastical, and modern at the same time. The setting is appropriately dungeon, but there are computers where “dark mining used for dark rituals” take place, toilets, soda pop cans, ventilation systems, vending machines, all of this amongst hand-monsters and evil rats and other mysteries.
Aesthetically, the game reminds me of renders from fantasy games you might find in magazines from the ’90s, there’s a colourful fuzz to it that’s hard to pinpoint elsewhere. Your character can wear a bucket for a helmet while wearing a camo top, high-vis trousers, and what I think are Crocs, all while another friend has donned a knights’ helm with a pistol in hand. It is fantasy by way of four friends mucking about in a digital realm they may or may not have hacked, and it is greatly appealing to me.
That is four friends to be precise, this is one of those kinds of games that I still don’t know what to refer to as, but if I reference Lethal Company or Peak you know what I mean.
In any case, there’s no release date attached to Vision Quench just yet, but it should be releasing sometime in 2026. You can wishlist it on Steam now.
