The video comes with developer commentary explaining some of the upcoming PS4 exclusive's most interesting features

Dec 22, 2014 15:17 GMT  ·  By

Sony has released a gameplay video from the upcoming indie PlayStation 4 exclusive The Tomorrow Children, showing how the game actually plays for the second time since the title's announcement.

The reveal of The Tomorrow Children garnered a ton of attention from the gaming community, mainly due to the game's interesting premise and unique visual style.

The game uses a special rendering technique, giving it the distinct feel of '60s children's claymation programs, making it stand out from pretty much everything else that has been created in the history of gaming.

The game comes from Q-Games, the creators of PixelJunk, and will be headed exclusively to the PlayStation 4 computer entertainment system from Sony, sometime in 2015.

It takes place on Earth, sometime in the future, following the few survivors of a catastrophic nuclear event, the descendants of Russian citizens who took to the underground and waited for things to cool off in the outside world.

The new society is fashioned in the model of classic communist dogma, and together with the intriguing art direction, it will most likely deliver a very distinct and interesting experience.

Rebuilding society, one dead kaiju at a time

The new video was released at Jump Festa, the Japanese convention dealing with everything from video games to anime and manga. It highlights some of the activities that gamers will be able to engage in while playing The Tomorrow Children, complete with commentary from the developer.

One of the interesting bits of the game will be defending your base from the big and burly monsters of the unforgiving post-nuclear world, and the video shows just how this works, following a player character manning a turret and taking down some nasty spiders and Godzilla lookalikes.

Once killed, the monsters are converted into minerals, which players can harvest and then use to further bolster the defenses of their base, or to expand them and add new buildings with new functions.

You are tasked with restoring the human population and venture out into the wild and mysterious world to uncover its secrets and gather its resources.

Gamers can hold a wide variety of tools and use them to carve their way through the world and to gather resources. Also, there are jetpacks.

As you do stuff in the game, you earn ration coupons (keeping in line with the game's theme), which allow you to do more and more interesting things, and build bigger and more complex stuff.

The Tomorrow Children looks like a fun game, and its unique sandbox mechanics will most likely offer a fresh experience for PlayStation 4 owners.

The Tomorrow Children screenshots (8 Images)

A fancy stroll around town
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