Years in the past, I had this dream the place I used to be parkouring by means of a significantly sunken model of Venice, little doubt sourced from the numerous hours I put into Murderer’s Creed 2 as a teen who ought to have been learning for his or her GCSEs much more than they have been. It is caught with me in spite of everything this time largely due to how a lot I needed to seize that feeling once more someway, as the true Murderer’s Creed did not fairly lower it. And lo and behold, there I used to be in the present day shopping Bluesky after I got here throughout Boars in Rome, a Mirror’s Edge and Counter Strike Surf impressed parkour platformer set in a dystopian model of Rome.
In truth, witnessing the clip I’ve shared under was baffling to me. “That is what I dreamt of!” Roughly, anyway, for the setting is not fairly the identical; “You’ve gotten been chosen to begin a brand new life off planet. Earth has been deserted,” explains the sport’s Steam web page. “Machines preserve working and nature claims what stays. Discover out what occurred when you have been frozen in time by exploring the remnants of Rome the place historic monuments combine with futurist megastructures.”
Mirrors Edge x Counter Strike Surf the place you parkour on something!
Be clean n fashionable in dystopian Rome. Or simply leap round and discover, no matter works for you.
It is referred to as Boars in Rome!
#PitchYaGame— Benji Savage (@ceplok.bsky.social) November 6, 2026 at 12:05 PM
Not all of it matches that dream of mine, a few of it leans rather more into brutalism than the everyday, a lot older structure you’d anticipate of Rome, however it’s there nonetheless. In movement, Boars in Rome feels fairly oneiric too. There’s a lot extra management over the sport’s avatar than what my actual physique is able to, or desires to do. You possibly can run, leap, slide and wallrun, positioning it fairly intently to VHOLUME mechanically. The place it differs is in its components, motion tech like having the ability to swing on lampposts or vault over low down obstacles.
VHOLUME is extra of a recreation about offering you with a easy toolkit and leaving you to push it to its most. Boars in Roam is a contact extra expressive, and I might dare to even name it an immersive sim. The degrees you’ll be able to romp round are linear, you might have an finish level to achieve, solely the journey is as much as you. It actually feels acceptable to place it within the im sim camp provided that, no less than the sport’s first degree, calls to thoughts Viktor Antonov’s work on Dishonored (and Half-Life 2, too, actually).
Because it at the moment stands, there is not any launch date for Boars in Rome, however there’s a playtest you’ll be able to join and acquire quick entry to in the event you fancy a go your self; you are able to do so on Steam proper here, or no less than pop it a wishlist.