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‘Home’ Creator Would Like To Make A Horror Dating Sim
I know, I’ve already hooked you. A horror dating sim? I don’t even know what that is, but my wallet’s out and ready for me to throw all my non-existent money at it.
Benjamin Rivers is the indie developer behind the deeply unsettling indie horror hit Home, which is on its way to Mac and Mobile sometime later this year. Speaking with Joystiq, Rivers said he’d like to make a new horror title with dating-sim elements. It started off as a joke he made on Twitter, and now it looks like this bizarre game may actually happen. More after the jump.
“I made a joke on Twitter like a month ago,” Rivers said, “where I was like ‘Hey guys, if I did a horror game with a dating-sim element, would people play it?’ and people were like ‘Yeah!’ Playing things like Mass Effect while finishing this game, playing Persona, that element of a really relationship-based game where you chase stuff like that, that’s kind of my new jam.”
“It’s not a grinding game or anything like that, but I want to take a lot of what you do in those relationship games like Persona and offload some of that to people,” Rivers continued, “I want to basically take a game that makes you feel as cool as you do in Persona, as far as relationships, as connected.”
I don’t know about you, but this sounds like a strange and wonderful idea, and possibly the beginning of a new subgenre.
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We have the Jason Universe to thank for the recent return of Jason Voorhees, with the short film Sweet Revenge and Jason’s arrival in Dead by Daylight helping to bring the hockey mask-wearing horror icon back into our lives. What else is planned, you ask?
In a chat with Variety this week, Jason Universe’s Robbie Barsamian teases that everything we’ve seen up to this point is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Jason’s return.
“We’ve been busy behind the scenes laying the foundation that everyone is finally starting to see come to life, but this is just the tip of the iceberg,” Barsamian teases.
“We have a thrilling lineup of new projects that we can’t wait to share more details on soon.”
Barsamian also notes during the chat with Variety, “We want to give fans fresh takes on what they love most about Jason and continue to expand his world in authentic ways that resonate with horror fans today.” One of those expansions will take the form of the upcoming Peacock and A24 series “Crystal Lake,” which stars Linda Cardellini as Pamela Voorhees.
“The Crystal Lake TV series will take fans back in time to tell the story of how Pamela Voorhees came to be the mother of all slashers,” Barsamian tells Variety this week.
“Crystal Lake” premieres October 15 on Peacock.
Callum Vinson (“Chucky”) is playing young Jason in “Crystal Lake,” which will tell the origin story of the masked slasher who has stalked the grounds of Crystal Lake for decades.
Last year, the Jason Universe team had teased that a new movie and a new video game are top priorities for the near future. But at this time we have no updates on either front.
Stay tuned for more from the Jason Universe.
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