World War I adventure “The Caribou Trail” announced

The Caribou Trail is set during the First World War

• The Caribou Trail is a WWI action-adventure game for PS5 and PC
• Game focuses on the psychological impact of war
• Set in Gallipoli, 1915.

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A new World War I-based game is coming. Developer Unreliable Narrators has announced “The Caribou Trail”, a first-person World War 1 action-adventure game for PS5 and PC, set to launch in 2026. On PC, the game will launch on Steam and the Epic Games Store.

How “The Caribou Trail” differs from your usual war-based games is that it focuses on how wars affect humans on a psychological and emotional level. It is a narrative-and-exploration-driven first-person adventure fiction game about the experiences of a group of friends, as they try to win and survive in battles they are thrust into. Themes of loss, grit, brotherhood and the stark realities of war outweigh those of glory in this title. According to the developer, the Caribou Trail experience is more about enduring the war than winning it.

The Caribou Trail: Historical setting

The game is set in Gallipoli, 1915, and features a story inspired by real events. Fisher, Gordon and Lonnie have enlisted in the British forces. They think that they will come back home soon with tales of adventure to tell. What they find actually on Gallipoli is something else, and the realisation that they are not getting out of this war so easily.

The Caribou Trail: Missions

The Caribou Trail features “some of the most unlikely” World War 1 missions. They require exploration, stealth and an experience of war that goes deeper than just shooting enemies and capturing locations. For example, players will “cut through barbed wire in no man’s land on a desperate reconnaissance mission, silence a sniper holding the line, and make noise during a chaotic evacuation,” the developer noted. They will make tough progress through the trenches as enemy artillery rains down bombs on them, take the dog tags back from the bodies of their friends, and trade in stories, even ghostly ones, around the campfire.