Overwatch director’s The Legend of California mixes Red Dead and Rust

Jeff Kaplan’s new studio Kintsugiyama has unveiled its debut game, The Legend of California, a multiplayer action-survival FPS that looks like Red Dead Redemption 2 reimagined as a survival crafting sim. The reveal arrived out of the blue late yesterday and the Steam page places the game on the Island of California during the gold rush era.

The game offers an open world set on a mythical 19th-century landmass where players can team up or strike out alone to gather resources and build up a ranch with stables, mines and other structures. Trailer footage and the store listing emphasize a hyper-realistic look combined with survival crafting systems.

Kaplan has said each server will host a different configuration of the world map: regions carry different difficulty tiers and points of interest will shift as you play. Music and lighting are central to the feel, with a heightened aesthetic inspired by the paintings of Albert Bierstadt.

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