While news has been quiet since the game's original reveal, Turbo Tap Games and progressive metal band Dream Theater's collaboration on The Astonishing, a game based on the concept album of the same name, is set to release in February. This digital board/strategy game, inspired by Turbo Tape's UHR-Warlords [$3.99 (HD)], the game will reenact the album's story from both sides of the conflict between the Raveskill Rebel Militia and the totalitarian Great Northern Empire of the Americas, with players taking on both campaigns that meet in an endgame scenario. Along with following the album's story, instrumentals of the album's music will provide the game's soundtrack, along with video material that was only available during live shows of The Astonishing in 2016.
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For those who don't know, The Astonishing is based on the album by the same name by the band Dream Theater, who made a 2-disc, 130-minute long album surrounding the story the game takes place in. Deciphering any progressive music concept album can be tough, but the story basically involves rebels against a totalitarian government using the power of art and music to resist their oppressors, sparking a revolution. There's a lot of material on the album and the world that the band created, that wound up being fit for a game that Turbo Tape Games wound up developing.

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