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Puppet Combo’s Latest Game ‘The Riverside Incident’ is a True Crime Horror With a Found Footage Twist
Indie developer Puppet Combo, fairly fresh off the Fulci-inspired The Glass Staircase, has swiftly delivered another horror game with a completely different style and tone.
The Riverside Incident sees the player trying to uncover the secrets of the Riverside Asylum after a video tape was discovered and was found to document some disturbing events there. It’s inspired by the True Crime genre, and presented in a found footage format.
The description for the game is below.
In July 1991, a group of hikers found a garbage bag containing a video tape. They initially believed the footage to be a prank. Limited portions of the tape have been released to the public in hopes of identifying the persons involved.
The Riverside Incident is a found footage, true crime horror game. You play as an urban explorer on a journey to unlock the secrets of the abandoned Riverside Asylum (or maybe it will unlock your dark secrets instead).
This is Puppet Combo’s fourth release of 2019 (the others being The Glass Staircase, Blood Maniac, and Unfinished Worlds Vol.1), and all have had a very distinct flavor.
It looks like another creepy hit, and you can play it now on PC via Puppet Combo’s Patreon page, where you can get access to all previous Puppet Combo games and any future ones.
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).
Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.
While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.
The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.
Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.
We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.
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