BioWare has dropped a trailer for what looks like a mildly trippy new horror game. Rings of fire, guys with smoke faces, other guys with light faces — it’s weird. But I like weird and I love horror, so I’m in.
We may actually already know a bit more about this mystery game than BioWare would’ve liked, as some particularly sleuth-like Internet dwellers have spotted a file in an email BioWare sent out with the teaser titled “ShadowRealms_Teaser_video.jpg”. It just so happens that EA filed a trademark for Shadow Realms back in February. I’m going to go ahead and say that that’s the game’s actual title.
Other than that, this is a mystery wrapped in an enigma. Looking at the trailer below — which ends with the question, “What really happens when we sleep?” — it seems as if this game revolves around nightmares. There’s also a teaser site and a few pages that mention a missing girl named Henna Caplin and a fake college called the Woods-Watson Institute of Higher Learning. How all of this ties into the game is anyone’s guess.
At least we won’t have to wait long for answers, as they promise more details to come at Gamescom next month.
