The Colony: New Haven Chronicles is now available for Windows on Steam with a 20% discount for the next two weeks, launching a top-down metroidvania from Aurora Games Studio and indie.io. The game's setting is New Haven, which some will recognize as a city in Connecticut known for "apizza," but in this case is a remote space outpost (no word on what kind of pizza is served there). Here's the Launch Trailer showing the game's retro graphics, and here's a rundown:

Aurora Games Studio and the indie publishing house indie.io are proud to announce the release of The Colony: New Haven Chronicles on Steam, a retro-styled, top-down Metroidvania putting players in the prison jumpsuit of a colonial prisoner, waking up abandoned in an infirmary with freshly installed neural hardware, a conspicuous absence of memories, and the dying gurgles of a guard down the corridor…

New Haven is a remote outpost of humanity among the stars, once hailed as the future of humanity under the leadership of Dr Elara. The utopian vision soon became mired in the problems of the moon chosen by the good doctor to implement her vision: Resource and food shortages, constant rationing, hostile alien wildlife, and more.