The Surge is a sci-fi spin on Dark Souls, from the Lords of the Fallen team.
Set in a heavily dystopian future as Earth nears the end of its life, those who remain
in the overpopulated cities must work to survive as social programs have become
saturated by an aging population and increasing environmental diseases. The world of The
Surge offers a very grim vision of the future, where the evolution of our technology,
our society and our relation with the environment led to a decadent state of the Human
civilization. Fitted with an advanced CREO exo-suit, balancing your core power against
your implants and exo-suit upgrades will allow you to specialize in a huge variety of
combat styles, thanks to the almost limitless combinations of addons and dozens of
make-shift weapons salvaged from the industrial complex. Finely tune your gear to match
your playstyle, and to best suit the challenge ahead. The Metroidvanian levels open up
as your core power increases, allowing you to over-charge doors previously too strong
for your suit to damage and opening new pathways for you to explore. The CREO facility
is vast, and if you want to find and craft the best equipment and weapons, you will need
to search every area for secrets and hidden items. The Surge features innovative combat
mechanics, allowing you to target individual limbs and dismember the exo-suit add-on or
weapon you want to acquire. Collecting tech-scrap and blueprints, you will be able to
return to the Operation Center to level up and craft new exo-suit addons and weapons
salvaged throughout the level. The most powerful of these can be acquired from the
world’s gigantic, industrial bosses. Most of what you encounter in The Surge was never
originally designed to kill you, and most of the items you loot and craft were never
meant for combat. However, the combined strength of the exo-suit and near-future
technology of CREO mean that anything from fork-lifting addons to laser cutters can be
used as lethal weapons for diving deeper into the facility.
