First-person action adventure game Falcon Age coming to Switch

Outerloop Games has revealed that its first-person action adventure game Falcon Age is on the way to Switch. It will release digitally on October 8.

For the Switch release, it will come with over a year of content updates including new quests, an upgrade system for your falcon, revamped cooking and hunting mechanics, and many quality of life updates. Also supported are touch controls to pet your falcon and gyro controls with the Joy-Con.

In this first-person single-player action-adventure, players will take on the role of Ara and learn to hunt, gather, and fight to reclaim her cultural legacy in the lost art of falcon hunting against a force of automated colonizers.

The game starts on a dying colony planet with its culture destroyed, resourced depleted, and turned into a desert by machine invaders. Ara’s been wrongfully thrown in jail for a minor infraction. While she awaits her fate in a lonely cell, she passes the time by befriending a young falcon. Together they escape and set off on an adventure to help the resistance reclaim their freedom and drive off the invaders.

Features:
– Take back your life: Rebel against robot colonisers and reclaim your culture
– Bond with a bird companion: Name, pet, feed, teach, and dress up your falcon.
– Hunt with your falcon: Various animals roam the land and can be hunted for precious materials.
– Craft falcon snacks: Farm, hunt, and cook snacks to feed, buff, heal and strengthen your falcon
– Accessorize your falcon: Make your falcon look dreamy with different hats and scarves. -also equipment for gameplay like sonar and armor.
– Fight robot colonisers: Use your trusty stun baton to fight off drones and robots with the help of your falcon.
– Reclaim your land: Take back multiple locations from the colonising faction and rebuild your community.
– Imprint Mode: Play the story mode with optional combat
– Dedicated pet button: Give and take items, high-five, fist bump, and sooth your falcon

Falcon Age will cost $19.99 on the Switch eShop with a 25 percent off launch discount.

Source: Outerloop Games PR