Ben ‘Yahtzee’ Croshaw is best known for his acerbic and scathing video games reviews on The Escapist, where he’s been gleefully eviscerating video games of the highest caliber, tossing even the sacred cows you hold dear on the grill.
This past week, Yahtzee released a teaser trailer for his Lovecraftian procedural horror game The Consuming Shadow. In it, players must search for clues and spells that can be used to defeat shadowy minions of a Cthulhu-ian creature before time runs out. Failure means immolation on a molecular level, courtesy of the Elder God that’s always watching.
According to Yahtzee’s blog, The Consuming Shadow is a point-and-click adventure game that features permadeath, four playable characters with branching stories and 20 different monsters. The sanity system made popular in games like Eternal Darkness and Amnesia returns with the same punishment, so a psychotic break means game over.
The footage is on the rough side and it doesn’t reveal much other than to let us know we’ll be dying a lot. The game looks to have an almost board game aesthetic, with its widescreen presentation and larger-than-usual interface.
No release date, but The Consuming Shadow will be coming to PC.
