A growth construct of Sony Interactive Studios and Firewalk Studios’ ill-fated Harmony has been leaked on-line.
The construct, which is known as FWChaos, was uploaded over the weekend and claims to be a construct dated November 14, 2023.
If this date is correct, it means the construct was compiled 9 months earlier than the sport’s launch in August 2024.
VGC has downloaded the construct and may affirm it seems to be genuine.
Loading the sport shows a login display that may’t be bypassed. Nonetheless, the construct’s uploader has additionally included an .ini file, which allows a developer menu. When that is utilized, the sport masses on to a Choose Freegunner display.
From right here, it seems the participant can go no additional, as a result of no Freegunners seem on the display, which means no person might be chosen. It’s at the least doable, nonetheless, to enter a pause display and from there entry the Important Menu, the place quite a few menus might be considered.
This features a partially accomplished Galactic Information, which offers data on the galaxy’s varied planets, and a Crew part, the place data on the sport’s 16 playable characters and their variant outfits might be discovered.
It additionally features a Job Board (which simply has placeholder textual content) and a Retailer possibility, which doesn’t do something, in addition to a Settings menu containing developer choices akin to Developer Matchmaking and a method information for the sport’s varied fonts.
Given the sport’s on-line requirement, nonetheless, it doesn’t presently appear that it’s doable to get past these screens or select a Freegunner to play the sport, which means that until fanatics discover a solution to get the construct operating a correct recreation, these unfinished menus are all of the construct offers.
Simply two weeks after it was launched final August, Sony introduced plans to take Harmony offline, pull the sport from sale, and supply refunds to all gamers who purchased it, citing a poor reception from gamers.
On the time, Sony mentioned it might discover the potential of bringing the sport again in a revised type. Nonetheless, a month later, PlayStation Studios CEO Hermen Hulst confirmed the corporate had determined to not transfer ahead with the title.
The sport’s developer Firewalk Studios was subsequently closed, with Hulst saying Sony would “work to search out placement for a few of these impacted inside our international group of studios the place doable”.
Firewalk was based in 2018 and was acquired by Sony in 2023. Harmony, its debut recreation, was reportedly in growth for round eight years. The title acquired “combined or common” evaluations, with its Metacritic rating sitting on 62 for PS5 and 65 for PC. In line with stories, the PS5 and PC recreation could have offered as few as 25,000 copies.
