Following two years of preproduction, sport developer 10 Chambers lastly introduced its new heist sport—Den of Wolves—Thursday in the course of the 2023 Game Awards. Set in 2097 in a extremely corrupt metropolis positioned in the course of the Pacific Ocean, it’s, based on narrative director Simon Viklund, the type of sport “where you’re supposed to feel like a badass.” For Viklund, who additionally serves as the sport’s composer (he did the compositions for PayDay: The Heist and PayDay 2, too), meaning “the music needs to, like, [grunt noise].”

True to its identify, Den of Wolves’ fictional metropolis is a spot the place principally something is authorized so long as it’s carried out within the pursuit of supercharged innovation and groundbreaking expertise. Imagine PayDay meets Cyberpunk 2077 set in a metropolis that is a combination of Venice and Hong Kong. The idea is sort of totally different from 10 Chambers’ earlier work with horror game GTFO, however it structurally performs to the studio’s core energy: 4 individual co-op video games.

Lots is on the road because the studio works on its second launch. 10 Chambers obtained an funding from Chinese tech and leisure conglomerate Tencent to construct this sport and broaden from a small workers of round 10 folks to almost 100. Viklund emphasizes that the sport may have a extremely detailed surroundings however that avid gamers mustn’t count on an open-world expertise. The total vibe, Viklund provides, pulls from a litany of sci-fi and thriller films, like Heat and Judge Dredd (the Stallone one, not the 2012 reboot).

While he loved engaged on horror sport music for GTFO, Viklund is happy to maneuver away from that style and again to a PayDay-esque heist expertise. “My wheelhouse is this power fantasy type of music,” he says. Never performed that franchise earlier than? Give “Razormind” from PayDay 2 a pay attention any morning you overlook your espresso at house and want a fast jolt of adrenaline.

So, what can gamers count on from the music in Den of Wolves? “So, there’s going to be elements, of course, that are similar to PayDay,” says Viklund. “But I’m keen on taking it somewhere else in terms of tempo. Making it heavier, slower paced.” He additionally seems ahead to incorporating totally different parts of percussion impressed by the Pacific Ocean setting.

Since the sport continues to be in early growth and received’t be launched for some time, WIRED didn’t see any precise sport footage throughout a latest preview occasion 10 Chambers held for the title. Similar to the launch of GTFO, the corporate plans to launch the sport at first to gamers by means of Steam early entry. Den of Wolves does not have a launch date but, however PC avid gamers can anticipate receiving it earlier than their console counterparts.

Fans of GTFO could also be disenchanted that their sport’s content material updates are ending, however Viklund factors to 10 Chambers’ first sport as vital for constructing the corporate’s confidence round design. “It was very freeing to be able to have a project where we could have that ‘fuck it—we’ll just do it’ sort of attitude,” he says. This sort of confidence is a driving drive behind 10 Chambers’ resolution to develop one thing contemporary for gamers somewhat than counting on a franchise idea that already exists.