Investigative Thriller The Occupation Finally Has a Release Date

A while back, The Occupation made the top of our list of 5 Indie Games to be Excited about in 2018 and for good reason. Set in North West England in 1987, The Occupation is a fixed-time, investigative thriller where you play as a journalist who is tasked with interviewing citizens after an explosion. The trailer shows off the game’s noir-style setting and even succeeds in building unease in a short period of time.

Watch thirty seconds of any detective show, and you know getting a straight answer from people who either saw, or who are connected to a crime in some way, is a task within itself. Indie Developer White Paper Games seems to be running with this idea in The Occupation, as you will be tasked with talking to people who all have a different account of what happened on the night of the explosion.

While it may be a headache getting a solid answer out of witnesses and possible suspects, your real enemy in this game is time. Players will have tools in their arsenal to get the results they need, but the real question is whether you will take a more forceful route to get answers, or do you allow time to tick by as you plan things out more carefully?

According to White Paper Games, “events happen in real-time and you must make decisions based on evidence. You are the reporter. You decide the narrative.”

Check out the announcement trailer below, and mark your calendars. The Occupation will be released October 9th on PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. Physical editions of the game will be available for those who purchased White Paper Games’ first title, Ether One on disc.

Tori Morrow

Tori is originally from Rapture but now she lives in Chicago. She enjoys open world RPGs, a good narrative-driven game, and is probably the only person still watching The Walking Dead.