Here’s what we played during the Steam Game Festival
Scorn, the first-person horror-adventure game with a beautifully grotesque, Giger-inspired aesthetic, has recently released 14 minutes of fresh gameplay footage.
Based on a set of real-life events, Terror: Endless Night has you become the captain of a 19th century ship stranded in ice, where both resources and the crew’s sanity begin to rapidly dwindle...
As you may know, we here at GTOGG like indie games quite a bit. So, it’s probably not going to come as much of a surprise that we ended up making one ourselves – or more specifically, a playable tech demo aimed to demonstrate the capabilities of our self-developed multiplayer framework called GamePsy.
Monster Sanctuary has you take on the role of a promising monster trainer who must go on a journey across the world and assemble a team of unique monsters to become, as they say, the very best.
The Wandering Village, from developer Stray Fawn Studio, works with a unique concept. It’s a city-builder with a twist that puts players in an interesting situation: they have to build a town atop a massive, dinosaur-like creature called Onbu.
Amnesia: Rebirth starts not entirely unlike its predecessor, although the circumstances surrounding it are quite different. Our protagonist, one Anastasie "Tasi" Trianon, suffers a catastrophic plane crash in the middle of the Algerian desert and wakes up in the wreckage realizing that the rest of the crew is nowhere to be found – what’s more, she also has trouble remembering exactly what happened to them.
The weather is getting chilly, the leaves are turning yellow, and the Steam Game Festival is back – and so are countless intriguing demos waiting for you to try them. Here are our personal picks:
In Vaporum: Lockdown you follow the adventures of Ellie Teller, a scientist just trying to make it out alive from a mechanical tower called Arx Vaporum where all hell seems to have broken loose, with robots, mutated roaches and steampunk zombies attacking everything in sight.
Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis”, a tale about a man turning into a hideous insect in his own bedroom, is probably one of the most iconic and important literary works of the early 20th century – as such, it comes as no surprise to me that a video game would attempt to use it for inspiration.
What Happened, a psychological horror game from developer Genius Slackers, touches upon a topic that I feel needs more exposure – it tells the story of a disturbed high school student, Stiles, as he struggles with severe depression and anxiety, highlighting his unstable mental health through a series of a surreal, symbolic experiences.