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Space-Set Thriller ‘Observation’ Gets a May Release Date and New Story Trailer
Observation is shaping up to be a rather interesting game. The developer, NoCode, is behind the highly effective text horror game Stories Untold after all, and the latest trailer for its new game drives that home.
In Observation, you are effectively playing as a space station, or rather, the AI that runs it. You are investigating events that transpired aboard the station, and the story trailer suggests that something rather unnatural took place.
As well as the trailer, we also learned that Observation will be releasing on May 21, 2019, on PC and PS4.
It’s a pretty cool twist to not be playing as the humans in this story, but instead assuming the role of the AI. Hopefully, we see it pay off with an interesting story. Given how well NoCode told a scary story in Stories Untold with little more than words, it’s exciting to imagine what they can do with a more extravagant toolset.
The best part about engaging with collaborative genre fiction on the internet is that anyone can get in on the action, with worldwide accessibility often resulting in absurd story beats that wouldn’t be possible if any single person was responsible for the entire narrative. And while Kane Parsons’ Backrooms film is definitely the young filmmaker’s own unique take on the infamous creepypasta, it’s fun to see other creators join the Backrooms sandbox now that the big screen adaptation is getting ready for a record-shattering opening weekend.
As if cleverly timed releases like Puppet Combo’s The Backrooms game weren’t enough (not to mention that Scary Movie poster poking fun at Parsons’ flick), McDonald’s official social media accounts have now released an analog horror video of their own celebrating the liminal terrors of the McRooms – complete with a familiar purple surprise at the end of the footage.
While it’s funny enough to see the world’s most recognizable Fast Food giant engage with internet-borne Found Footage thrills seemingly out of the blue, the video is actually referencing a long-running gag among the Backrooms fandom where creators jokingly talk about there being a fully functional McDonald’s restaurant hidden somewhere in level 0 of the infamous liminal labyrinth.
Now, would it be too much to hope for a moist-carpet-flavored McShake to tie in with the film?
Backrooms is now playing only in theaters from A24.
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