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Psychological Horror Game ‘Interpoint’ Feels Like a Horror Version of ‘Portal’
While I never really got into Valve’s Portal series, you can’t deny its innovation and quality. Still, it’d be great if there was a third game. But, until then, Publisher Juvty Worlds and developer Three Dots have a treat in the form of Interpoint, which takes on a far more sinister tone than what Valve gave us.
Set for a Spring 2019 release into Early Access on Steam, Interpoint is a first-person sci-fi mystery with elements of psychological horror. You play as Harry G., a scientist who took part in a project at Delta Laboratories that resulted in the Quantum Entanglement Device. The device allows the opening of portals to countless parallel universes. As these things go, something goes wrong, and Harry finds himself far from home.
Like Portal, Interpoint will give you a weapon which functions more like a tool than anything. The Photon Gun is able to absorb energy from surrounding objects (light from bulbs, gamma radiation from radioactive puddles, force fields in laboratories, etc.) and transform it into something else. This is key, given that you’ll be having to solve puzzles with a variety of solutions as you journey back home. This is all on top of the “twisted story” that delves into conspiracy, and will result in multiple endings.
While the game will hit Early Access first, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 users can expect the game to hit their respective consoles in the Fall.
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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