From the creators of Payday 1 and 2 comes Den of Wolves, combining high-tech heists with a dystopian cyberpunk atmosphere.
The 2024 Game Awards have already given us many exciting announcements – and one of them comes directly from Sweden. Developer studio 10 Chambers, known for GTFO, showed its new title Den of Wolves in action for the first time.
The gameplay trailer above gives a first glimpse of the ambitious project: a co-op heist game that combines classic heists with innovative mechanics such as neural hacking elements.
From Payday to Den of Wolves
Creative Director Ulf Andersson, who has already shaped the genre with Payday: The Heist and Payday 2, describes Den of Wolves as a next step in his creative journey.
While in Payday, banks and jewelry stores were more likely to be your targets, Den of Wolves focuses on high-tech scenarios in a dystopian world.
Andersson sees the new title as a fusion of the dark co-op spectacle of GTFO with the strategic heists that fans of his earlier works know.
You’ll be immersed in the megametropolis of Midway City, a city founded in 2035 after devastating AI cyberattacks as a high-security zone. What began as a protective space for companies has, over time, become a setting of unbridled corporate power and social inequality.
As in Payday,: In this environment, you not only have to prevail against heavily armed security forces, but also outsmart surveillance systems.
10 Chambers has made it clear that they place a great deal of emphasis on the design of their game world. Midway City is divided into different districts, which are controlled by powerful corporations. The Promise District, which will be available in early access, showcases this dystopian world particularly impressively – with luxurious apartments for the upper class and slums for the impoverished.
When will Den of Wolves be released?
There is no fixed release date yet: according to Communications Director Robin Björkell, 10 Chambers wants to return to the days when games were simply finished before they were released. Den of Wolves will appear in Steam Early Access later – as soon as the developers are ready.
