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‘Dear Esther’ Goes for a Walk On PS4, Xbox One This Summer
For the better part of a decade, The Chinese Room has been doing for atmospheric walk ‘n talks what Telltale has done for episodic gaming — and like Telltale, the stories they tell expand on a preexisting universe, rather than create one. It’s an odd approach to game development, but it’s one that gave us narratively ambitious titles like Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, which weren’t at all afraid to get weird.
It was the experimental Half-Life 2 mod Dear Esther that first showcased their ability to make going for a walk while someone talks at you a worthy premise for a video game. There’s a mystery it asks you to solve, but there’s no urgency to it. Without enemies or objectives, the narrative becomes the carrot-on-a-stick that carries its relatively brief 2-3 hour running-time.
Dear Esther won’t click with everyone, but I it’s worth checking out to see if it does for you. It’s available now on PC, Mac and Linux, with a planned release for PS4 and Xbox One this summer.
While you wait for Alien: Romulus, the folks over at Devilworks have cooked up their own slice of “mockbuster” fun with Alien Hunt, and we’re debuting the trailer here on BD this morning.
This brand-new sci-fi horror from director Aaron Mirtes (The Bigfoot Trap, Painted in Blood) is set for its US premiere on May 14, and you can find it on digital thanks to Devilworks.
You can exclusively watch the official trailer for Alien Hunt below, which looks to combine elements of Alien and Predator. This particular “mockbuster” has very little interest in hiding its inspirations, with the alien designs plucked straight out of H.R. Giger’s beautiful brain. Hey, if you’re going to pull from other movies, might as well take from the all-time greats!
In Alien Hunt, “On a hunting trip in the wilderness, a group of siblings discovers an abandoned military outpost on their land, but is it what it seems?
“Their trip takes a sinister turn when they find themselves facing off against a relentless army of extra-terrestrial beings. Suddenly, the hunters become the hunted.
“The formidable squad of alien soldiers will stop at nothing to wipe out the enemy and in an all-out, brutal battle for survival, it’s kill or be killed in Alien Hunt.”
Barron Boedecker (Escape Pod, The Bigfoot Trap), Brent Bentley (The Perfect In-Laws, Haunt Season), Deiondre Teagle (The Visitor, Painted in Blood, Death Ranch), Chelsey Fuller (The Bigfoot Trap, The Silent Natural), Jesse Santoyo (A Nashville Country Christmas, Potter’s Ground), and Adam Pietripaoli (The Bigfoot Trap, The OctoGames) star.
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