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.