White Paper Games to take a stab at I Am Ripper 

• Announcements by Jack Allin
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British thriller set in the 1980s unveiled by the creators of Ether One, The Occupation and Dahlia View

In the late 1880s, the mystery of Jack the Ripper rocked the East End of London with a string of gruesome, still-unsolved murders. History appears doomed to repeat itself if players are not able to stop it in I Am Ripper, an upcoming new thriller set a hundred years later by the creators of Ether One, The Occupation and Dahlia View (aka Conway: Disappearance at Dahlia View).

It's 1988, a period of "brutality and economic decline" in Britain, when a "small northwestern dock town" is plagued by seemingly random murders forensically proven to be the work of one sadistic killer. As an investigator assigned to the case, it's your job to "find the forensics, reveal the secrets and pursue the person responsible." Easier said than done with a maniac still on the loose, however, thrusting you into "a series of gut-wrenching challenges placing the fates of others in your hands." The killer, not coincidentally dubbed "The Ripper," engages you in a game of cat-and-mouse by creating "horrific circumstances forcing you to choose a path." But each choice will "have consequences for someone, you just don’t know who."

Building on the themes established in developer White Paper Games' previous titles, I Am Ripper promises to be a cinematic and "fast paced thriller told from multiple perspectives." Presented in free-roaming first-person 3D, it's described not as "a puzzle game, or a horror game, or a detective game," but rather a combination of the best components of each, experienced through highly interactive "tactile gameplay" with context-specific mechanics. The game doesn't hold back on dark, gritty subject matter, as teased in its already richly uncomfortable first teaser, which will make the weight of each choice you make feel all the heavier. Through a variety of scenarios based around power and its use (or misuse), how players decide to branch the narrative will "ripple through their timelines and change story outcomes in distinct ways," so it's up to you to "figure out where your moral judgments lay." 

There is no firm target release date just yet, but I Am Ripper is already available for wishlisting on Steam and Epic for Windows PC. To follow the game's progress i the meantime, be sure to drop by the official website for additional details.