Senscape’s Lovecraftian horror adventure game Asylum is going to release this year, I’m sure of it.
I’m not actually sure of that, not at all, but I do have hope. This game looks far too wonderfully haunting to share the sad fate of every other horror game-turned-vaporware. It needs to release so we’ll finally know if it’s the ambitious and beautifully atmospheric survival horror game that many of us fell in love with when it successfully raised nearly $120,000 on Kickstarter three years ago.
Okay, so this post was supposed to be about the 10th anniversary of Senscape’s classic indie horror game, Scratches, and while that’s absolutely worth celebrating, you know what I’d really like to celebrate? A release date for Asylum.
“Ten years ago today a famed writer spent three fateful days in the estate known as Blackwood Manor,” writes Senscape in a Facebook post that doesn’t mention Asylum, nor how I long for it. “The events which transpired during this period gave birth to one of the most beloved horror adventure games of all time, as well as unprecedented reported cases of phobia towards basements. Happy 10th anniversary, Scratches!!”
That’s sweet. In ten years time, when you and I are racing hover boards on the surface of Mars with our extraterrestrial friends, I hope we’ll holster our laser rifles so we can celebrate a similar anniversary of a game called Asylum. Until then, this is what Scratches looks like.
