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The neighborhood is an ’80s crime sandbox where you play as a cop who keeps bad guys away, and it’s been delayed until 2025 to ensure developer Fallen Tree Games can make it “the game we think you deserve” .

The developers made the announcement on Steam. They explain that “we are a core team of only 5 people, so we don’t have the same resources as the big triple-A studios that make similar sandbox games.”

Despite the small size of the team, The police station has already impressed many people. Its demo rose to second place in the Upcoming Trends tab of Steam Next Fest in a week where we wasted all our time with the huge selection of cool trials on offer.

To ensure fans of the demo aren’t disappointed with the full release, “We’ve been working tirelessly right now to polish the final game and implement bug fixes so we can try to reach our 2024 release,” declare the developers. . Unfortunately, “Even with all five of us working as hard and as fast as possible, we don’t think we’ll be able to deliver the game we want by the end of this year. In short, the game we could Delivering on the year is not the game we think you deserve.”

So they made the difficult, but probably wise, decision to delay the game until 2025. There’s no exact release date yet, but “we’ll let you know as soon as we have a new confirmed date,” they assure. We.

As an open-world crime game, it has been compared to RGT a lot, but it’s really quite the opposite since you play the cops, not the robbers, and it will now be released the same year as the highly anticipated GTA 6.

While I completely understand the comparisons given The Precinct’s criminal theme, I think it feels different enough to stand out from GTA. I love the grimy aesthetic of Averno City: it doesn’t make it feel glamorous cop, but rather dangerous and dirty. It also has a not-quite-isometric POV, with a third-person view keeping a distance from the protagonist so you can see the rooftops as you patrol the city’s dark alleys.

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