Have you ever wondered what it would be like to become an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile? BRAINSHELL Team clearly has, and that has resulted in them coming with with BRAINSHELL, a psychological horror experience focusing on immersion, storytelling and “audiovisual torment.” To give you a sense of what that’s all about, the team has released a demo on Steam.
The story takes place in 1963, in a world that replaced computers with human brains. The nuclear arms race has led to a point of no return. Your government uses propaganda, brainwashing and body modifications to create the ultimate weapon: a conscious nuclear missile. You are that nuclear missile.
A being born from flesh and steel, you live to serve one purpose: to fly towards death. You’ll turn levers, press buttons and choose narrative options that will advance you in a gruesome story of hallucinations of fleshy madness. Experience body horror and traverse the main character’s psyche using the game’s experimental mouse-only controls.
To add to the surrealness, BRAINSHELL sports PSX-era graphics that “carry a level of uncanny familiarity and brutal surreality.” The visuals are complimented by a soundtrack that features “the cry of a tormented of a saxophone” to evoke a new type of horror.