Nicosia, Cyprus (August 20, 2025) | Today publisher Owlcat Games, alongside developer Emotion Spark Studio, announced the release date for upcoming narrative RPG Rue Valley. Launching November 11, 2025, Rue Valley is an emotionally driven isometric narrative RPG about one man’s struggle to break free from a time loop by confronting the struggles within his own mind.
Drawing inspiration from titles like Disco Elysium, Rue Valley sees players navigating a complex emotional story. They must guide the main character through the depths of his own struggles, with each choice influencing a personality profile that will change interactions with the world around him. Journey through a man’s mental conflicts to uncover the secrets behind the anomaly causing an unexplainable time loop.
About Rue Valley
Rue Valley is an isometric narrative RPG following a man caught in a time loop where each reset changes not only what he can do, but who he becomes. Players carry memories across loops, unlocking new dialogue, mindsets, and ways to interact with the strange world around the Rue Valley. Along the way, they’ll encounter a captivating ensemble of characters, each wrestling with their own emotional complexities and revealing hidden depths as you get to know them.
Key features of Rue Valley:
- Craft Your Personality: Be a cold-hearted loner in one loop and a melodramatic loudmouth in the next. Rue Valley’s time loop resets everything, giving players the chance to experiment with their personalities, actions, and answers.
- Store Your Memories: Important memories can be stored in a graph, unlocking unique interactions around the Rue Valley Motel and new mindsets to help build out the main character.
- Uncover the Secrets of Rue Valley: An anomaly has trapped the area around the Rue Valley Motel in a time loop. Experiment with the main character’s actions each day until you have enough evidence to solve the mystery.
- 2D Parallax Art Style: Rue Valley has an instantly recognizable, visually appealing comic book aesthetic inspired by Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Disco Elysium.
Rue Valley launches November 11, 2025, on PC via Steam, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch.
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A complete press kit, with key art, screenshots, trailers, and more can be found here: https://uberstrategist.link/Rue-Valley-Press-Kit.
About Emotion Spark Studio
Emotion Spark Studio was founded in January 2020 in Belgrade, Serbia. It’s comprised of people with years of experience in the gaming industry, including project design, development, management, and delivery.
About Owlcat Games
Owlcat Games is a developer and publisher with a passion for RPGs and narrative-driven games. From our beginnings as a small group of games industry veterans obsessed with the idea of making our dream games a reality, we have grown into a truly international company, with our headquarters in Cyprus and more than 450 employees spread across offices in various countries. We are continuing to expand and take on new hires from around the world, and we also get together every week to play tabletop games in the office and on Roll20 online.
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