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Text-Based Horror Game ‘Beyond The Veil’ Coming This Year
It’s a well-known fact that the scariest stuff comes from what you don’t see on the screen, and rather what you make up in your head. Text-based horror games (which are like interactive novels, really) are no exception, giving you just enough for you to start the wheels turning. That’s what
Sun’s Shadow Studios’ Beyond The Veil hopes to capitalize on when it’s released later this year.
The game puts a focus on character-driven storytelling, as well as giving you the choice of altering not just the story, but your character’s personality. Don’t worry, you’re not going to have to read everything if you don’t want to. The devs are casting voices for the characters in the game, starting with the game’s protagonist, Kara (who is voiced by Erika Ishii).
Beyond The Veil takes place in New Orleans, where Kara, an unemployed college dropout, has had to move in with her Dad. Kara has no discernible skills, and no direction. It’s her exploration of this city, and the friendships she makes there, that will mold her into the person she’ll become. What that entails is entirely up to you.
Choose a path that will allow you to experience up to three entirely separate stories, with thousands of pathways and over 18 different endings. Explore all three to unlock the fourth and final story. Along the way, the decisions you make will have an effect on one of Kara’s personality traits: Empathy, Jealousy, Honesty, Belief and Happiness. By making choices that increase or reduce the level of Kara’s traits, you’ll craft a personality for Kara which is unique to your experience.
Look for the game out on Steam later this year.
We have the Jason Universe to thank for the recent return of Jason Voorhees, with the short film Sweet Revenge and Jason’s arrival in Dead by Daylight helping to bring the hockey mask-wearing horror icon back into our lives. What else is planned, you ask?
In a chat with Variety this week, Jason Universe’s Robbie Barsamian teases that everything we’ve seen up to this point is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Jason’s return.
“We’ve been busy behind the scenes laying the foundation that everyone is finally starting to see come to life, but this is just the tip of the iceberg,” Barsamian teases.
“We have a thrilling lineup of new projects that we can’t wait to share more details on soon.”
Barsamian also notes during the chat with Variety, “We want to give fans fresh takes on what they love most about Jason and continue to expand his world in authentic ways that resonate with horror fans today.” One of those expansions will take the form of the upcoming Peacock and A24 series “Crystal Lake,” which stars Linda Cardellini as Pamela Voorhees.
“The Crystal Lake TV series will take fans back in time to tell the story of how Pamela Voorhees came to be the mother of all slashers,” Barsamian tells Variety this week.
“Crystal Lake” premieres October 15 on Peacock.
Callum Vinson (“Chucky”) is playing young Jason in “Crystal Lake,” which will tell the origin story of the masked slasher who has stalked the grounds of Crystal Lake for decades.
Last year, the Jason Universe team had teased that a new movie and a new video game are top priorities for the near future. But at this time we have no updates on either front.
Stay tuned for more from the Jason Universe.
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