A lot of people, myself included, mistook Gone Home for a horror game just because it followed a woman who must search an empty house at night during a thunderstorm — a classically spooky setting — for clues that might tell her where her sister went off to. Absention is an indie horror game with a similarly eerie setup, only this time, it comes with the goal of scaring you so bad you’re forced to sleep with a ZF-1 gun under your pillow.
In Absention, your character pays a visit to the exorbitantly expensive lake house they just inherited after their father mysteriously disappeared. Because this is a horror game, we can look forward to solving the house’s puzzles, uncovering its sinister secrets, and confronting our demons — including at least one literal monster.
Then we can do it all over again, because did I mention you’re also stuck in a time loop?
Absention is in pre-alpha right now, so it’s still a long ways off. It’s currently on Steam Greenlight, in case you’d like to give it a thumbs up. I’m sure its developer would appreciate it if you did.
