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Underwater Horror Returns in ‘Stasis: Bone Totem’, Out Today on Steam [Trailer]

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A while back, we had mentioned that indie studio The Brotherhood was working on a follow up to their isometric overhead horror game Stasis with Bone Totem. Fans will be pleased to learn that Stasis: Bone Totem is out now on Steam, and until June 7, sports a 20% discount.

Touted as “Alien meets Disco Elysium underwater”, Bone Totem follows Mac and Charlie, a husband-and-wife team of nautical salvagers who stumble upon DEEPSEA 15, a seemingly abandoned Cayne Corporation rig in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. You quickly find out just why the rig has been abandoned, and why the Cayne Corporation will do anything to keep what’s held in the rig hidden.

Gameplay for Bone Totem features the same isometric, point-and-click gameplay that made Stasis a classic fan favorite. It also features a score by Mark Morgan, whose scored the first Stasis game, as well as Dark Seed II, Fallout, and more recently Wasteland 3.

In Bone Totem, you’ll be switching between playing as Mac, Charlie, and their trusty Super-Toy, Moses. All the while, you’ll have to manage a shared inventory system where you’ll have to combine items, interact with computers, and solve puzzles in order to escape this nightmare under the sea.

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Endless Mode Available Now in New Update for ‘Life Eater’

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Fans of Strange Scaffold and publisher Frosty Pop’s apocalyptic Life Eater have another reason to keep coming back to the game, as the much-anticipated Endless Mode is available now. Best of all, it’s a free update!

The new endless mode gives Life Eater players an arena to determine how long they can evade capture while delaying the end of the world. Collect score points called ZEAL by building an airtight procedure around your sacrifices, investigate the lives of countless procedurally generated kidnapping targets, and survive as long as possible in your personal gauntlet of nightmares.

“We’re so excited to expand the playtime of Life Eater with a uniquely dark and intriguing systemic experience,” says Strange Scaffold founder Xalavier Nelson Jr. “You really just terrorize an entire city of people over the span of decades, now, and I can only hope that I don’t come to regret writing that sentence in a press release.”

For those not in the know, Life Eater (check out Aaron’s review here) is a horror fantasy kidnapping simulator where you play as a druid living in suburbia. You serve a dark entity by abducting and sacrificing specific but vaguely described humans every year to stop the apocalypse. Use a unique video editing-inspired interface to discover the intimate lives of your victims, one schedule block at a time. When the time is right, abduct them before authorities find out.

You can snag a copy of Life Eater on Steam.

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