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You Need to Watch This Debut Trailer for ‘Hunger’
One trailer. One trailer is all it took for a game called Hunger to climb its way to the near-top of my most anticipated list. I’m not sure if developer Tarsier Studios has imbued this trailer with black magic in a Siren-like effort to lure in unsuspecting passersby, or if they’re just ridiculously good at crafting games that appeal to me directly, but I am sure that it no longer matters. I’m hooked.
I’m going to let you watch its debut trailer, then I’ll give you some details.
The premise behind Hunger sounds simple enough. Our mission is to help a young girl named Six as she tries to escape from The Maw — a hellish, monster-infested world that resembles an over-sized, deformed dollhouse. It’s an atmospheric horror platformer they refer to as a “suspense-adventure” game, because “there will be plenty of both.”
Hunger was made possible thanks to a €200,000 development support fund Tarsier Studios received from the Nordic Game and Creative Europe programs. It’s also another reason why I love indie developers, because they give us stuff that looks like this. Granted, it’s nowhere near completion, but so long as the final product doesn’t stray too far from the footage above, we may have a truly unique new horror game to look forward to.
I’ve been trying to think of an adequate way to describe Hunger, but all I’ve been able to come up with is it looks sort of like LittleBigPlanet, if a copy of the game had returned with the starship Event Horizon after it got lost in that freaky hell dimension. Shaped by agony, torment and the clawed hands of Satan himself. I’m still working on it.
The art style is what immediately drew me in. This is a gorgeous game, with visuals that remind me a lot of Among the Sleep’s similarly quirky look.
That’s all I’ve got for now, but expect to hear more from Hunger in the very near future.
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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