Square Enix is teasing a mysterious new sci-fi game by the name of Outriders, set to be unveiled in full during its E3 presentation next week.
An Outriders account has been active on Twitter since 1st May this year, although its existence has only recently been widely shared. In that time, 13 tweets have been posted, written as mission logs from a Captain Simon B. Archan.
Each post charts the next stage in the journey of the starship Flores as it makes its way toward Enoch – a voyage “which may well be humanity’s last hope and salvation”. By the end of the tweets, the Flores has reached its destination, and is in orbit of Enoch, “but the time has come to begin dismantling her and preparing for our new home”.
A (presumably) final tweet, featuring a short video of a character waking from cryostasis, ditches the mission log format to announce that Outriders will debut at Square Enix’s E3 showcase.
>>Initialize Cryostasis wake-up procedure
See it first: >>> 06.10.19 <<<#SquareEnixE3 #E32019 pic.twitter.com/VVIo3CEazj
— Outriders (@Outriders) June 3, 2019
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Despite the looming reveal, there have, inevitably, been attempts to decipher the mystery of Outriders ahead of time. We know, for instance, that Square filed a European trademark for something called Outriders last May – which was, back then, speculated to be linked to the publisher’s “triple-A” collaboration with Bulletstorm developer People Can Fly.