I love how much attention developers have been giving to the deep blue lately. Outer space, asylums and post-apocalyptic landscapes are sufficiently spooky settings that I’ll always enjoy ridding of monsters, ghosts and zombies, but I appreciate the attempt to give us some variety. There’s also the very obvious fact that the ocean is goddamn terrifying. We still haven’t seen most of it, especially the deeper parts that are almost certainly the home of an Elder God or some Kraken-esque creature.
The latest attempt to make us fear the ocean again comes from Iron Fish, an indie horror game about a murderous robot fish that crushes lesser fish under its heavy metal body because it’s angry at its creator for not giving it the ability to love.
That’s not even a little true. Iron Fish is really about a deep sea investigator named Cerys who’s been tasked with exploring the darkest depths of the ocean using the most state-of-the-art equipment. According to the game’s Steam Greenlight page, the story will blur the lines between “science and the supernatural.”
You know what that means. Ghost fish.
Iron Fish is scheduled for a late 2015 release on PC.
