Indie Game Dubium Has Debut

Among Us is a worldwide hit especially in Korea, where streamers have been broadcasting games and content creators have created amusing animations like this one but no game lasts forever, and a group of Korean industry veterans are hoping to unseat Among Us as the best social deduction game by giving it a makeover.

Mumo Studio is a group of four game developers with a combined 20 years of experience on titles such as Black Desert Online, Dead to Rights, and Boxing Star. Dubium, their first game, has players assume hidden roles in order to either escape or die trying to escape an abandoned space station.

Dubium, like Among Us, has one player play as the Traitor while the other players try to repair the solar panels on an escape pod in order to leave an abandoned space station. The Traitor intends to sabotage the efforts of the other players while also assassinating them one by one. Meanwhile, the Frontier players must continue their repair work while trying to figure out who the Traitor is.

Dubium’s graphical style, in addition to the fixed five-player maximum, is what sets it apart. The characters are all much higher definition, but they’re all drawn in a cartoonish style that makes their menacing expressions charming in a Team Fortress 2 or Fortnite sort of way.

While Mumo shared little with its details, each character will have gadgets to help them perform better in the game. Those gadgets can be upgraded in some way through gameplay for added benefits.

A Twitch extension was built in Dubium where it will allow Twitch viewers to participate in the game and assist the streamer in making decisions.

Dubium will include in-game communications that use expressions and radio messages that will transcend language barriers, as Koreans are no strangers to language barriers.

Dubium will be released on PC in 2022, but if things go well, we wouldn’t be surprised to see it on consoles as well.