Macbeth, William Shakespeare’s iconic play, is being reimagined as an interactive online game with a neo-noir vibe — and it’s being developed partly by the Royal Shakespeare Firm. The sport, titled Lili, is a “display screen life thriller online game” the place you’ll have entry to a modern-day Girl Macbeth’s private units, in line with a press launch.
“Gamers will likely be immersed in a stylized, neo-noir imaginative and prescient of contemporary Iran, the place surveillance and authoritarianism are a part of each day life,” the discharge says. “The gameplay will characteristic a mix of live-action cinema inside an interactive recreation format, giving gamers the possibility to immerse themselves on the earth of Girl Macbeth and make decisions that affect her future.” It sounds sort of like a model of Macbeth impressed by Sam Barlow’s interactive thrillers.
The Royal Shakespeare Firm is making the sport in collaboration with iNK Tales, a New York-based indie studio and writer that additionally made 1979 Revolution: Black Friday. It stars Zar Amir as “Girl Macbeth (Lili),” per the press launch.
Lili is ready to launch “later in 2025.”