Indie studio, Lookout Drive Games launched a Kickstarter for their upcoming space western visual novel Bitter Silver, inspired by the anime Cowboy Bebop. Play as a bounty hunter leading a team of bickering misfits as you track down targets with your words or your weapons in a reactive story where your choices matter.
The campaign has a goal of $10,00 USD and is set to run until October 3, 2024, so be sure to show your support before the deadline! The team plans to release the game in 2026.
About Bitter Silver
A Cowboy Bebop-inspired space western visual novel adventure where you can define your path as bounty hunter Lucia Lopez in the far flung future of the Milky Way Galaxy!
Experience your life as Lucia Lopez – a charismatic ex-soldier turned bounty hunter faced with adversity, tracking down space bounties with hopes of finding the long-awaited answer to a shocking curse plaguing your life.
Aboard your ship, the Athena, is Zap Matters, your fun-loving, half-human, half-alien, partner-in-crime (and love), and Hobbes, your team’s resident tech expert and a robotic talking cat.
It’s up to you and your team to journey into a city at the fringes of the Milky Way and track down the last three bounties standing in your way of finding the answers Lucia has been seeking all her life.
Characters of Bitter Silver
Key Features
- Choose a unique backstories that define Lucia’s past – Talk to your ship! Share a love of dance or space operas! Know the odds of outcomes! Launch yourself head long into things!
- Experience different choices and consequences in every play through based on your chosen backstory trait – No two playthroughs are alike! The story and the characters will react depending on your backstory and choices made throughout.
- Make decisions that define your personality as a bounty hunter and how others see you – Be dashing and suave! Be rogue and carefree! Be collected and thoughtful! Or be a mix of all three! It’s up to you!
- Branch the story in various ways based on decisions you make throughout the entire game, both big and small – Actions both big and small will affect Lucia’s story along the way and some may not pay off until down the line…
- Deepen your relationship with Zap and Hobbes through conversations that affect how they react to you – Hang out with your crew outside of missions to get know them more and shape your bond with them. Do you indulge their behavior? Push against it? Or stand back and let them do their thing?
- Define the boundaries of your partnership with Zap from soft touches to dance-offs in the kitchen – Flirt, touch, or exchange subtle gestures with your partner-in-crime (and love) as you see fit and grow your relationship further together, whether romantically, professionally, or both!
- Take down unique bounty targets dead or alive using your skills as a team – You’ll always have the option to capture or kill a bounty target. It’s up to the world to decide how to react to your methods…
- An original, Yoko Kanno-influenced jazz and blues-filled score – Because everyone loves a good jazzy tune.
- A game you can finish in one to two sittings!
- A cute cat you can pet!
Art Assets and Screenshots
About Lookout Drive Games
BITTER SILVER is developed by Lookout Drive Games, a New York City-based indie game studio focused on fun, inclusive, narrative-driven games, founded by Robert Pigott.
Before Bitter Silver, Lookout Drive Games released PORTRAIT OF A TEXAS FAMILY for PC and Mac in April 2022 which was covered by them, MSNBC, CBS News, and The Houston Chronicle.
