PlayerUnknown's Prologue: Go Wayback is an enchanting exploration sim tossed on a sea of metaverse imagineering

Buried in Brendan Greene and PlayerUnknown Productions' billowing, three-part, decade-long effort to build some kind of "3D internet" there is a ramshackle but thoughtful Unreal Engine game about wilderness survival and orienteering. Catchily titled Prologue: Go Wayback! and due for Early Access launch this spring, it's a game about finding a radio tower on a 64km2 map, generated based on a mix of in-house art and public access landscape data fed through the developer's in-house machine learning technology. Read more

Feb 21, 2025 - 12:53

PlayerUnknown's Prologue: Go Wayback is an enchanting exploration sim tossed on a sea of metaverse imagineering

Buried in Brendan Greene and PlayerUnknown Productions' billowing, three-part, decade-long effort to build some kind of "3D internet" there is a ramshackle but thoughtful Unreal Engine game about wilderness survival and orienteering. Catchily titled Prologue: Go Wayback! and due for Early Access launch this spring, it's a game about finding a radio tower on a 64km2 map, generated based on a mix of in-house art and public access landscape data fed through the developer's in-house machine learning technology.