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Morally-Conflicting RPG ‘The Executioner’ Arrives on Steam Today
A long time ago, we mentioned Lesser Evil Games’ The Executioner. Two years later, and the game’s first episode is out now on Steam!
The Executioner takes the unusual step of putting you in the role of an executioner, where in lieu of hacking and slashing everyone, you’re faced with moral dilemmas and complex situations as the man in the hood. Not only must you seek a signed confession from those who face your axe, but you’ll have to weigh the politics involved: Do you satisfy the town’s judge, or risk angering your employer by saying you aren’t sure a man’s guilty? And when you do put someone to death, will you be merciful, or will you give the crowd a show?
You’ll also have to manage your own sanity while you’re doing all of this. Just to up the ante. The title’s UI is mainly a text-based, with around 20 hours of story to discover.
“We believe that our game provides an opportunity to live through a hard, painful and rather dark experience – and experience the ethical trap in which the participants of the Milgram experiment were caught,” says lead writer Elena Sivakova. “We want our players to fully understand the price of a lesser evil.”
As mentioned, the first episode is out today, with the following two to come out in three-month successions.
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Escape a Literal Hellhole in First-Person Survival Horror Title ‘Nature of Dread’ [Trailer]
Described as a nightmare “torn from the pages of Lovecraft, Nikolai Gogol, and Mikhail Bulgakov,” Nature of Dread is a newly-announced survival horror title coming to Steam. This sci-fi horror title has players fighting their way out of a nightmare deep within the northern wilderness, uncovering what has been buried under top-secret clearance for centuries.
The story for Nature of Dread that’s been revealed so far sees players awaken in the classified settlement of Hellhole in the northern forests. Built as humanity’s final defense in a war that has raged for over a millennium, the settlement was designed to contain an ancient evil. As these things go, in a desperate attempt to stop said evil, people tried to contain it, isolate it, and study it.
Ultimately, the military stepped in to do their usual cover-up routine, sealing the borders of the settlement off from the outside world and denying access. Unfortunately, things that were buried tend to have a habit of rising to the surface. Now you’ve been thrust into this centuries-old conflict, where you must decide how far you’re willing to go to protect what truly matters to you.
You’ll be facing off against the spawn of primordial evil, where these creatures learn, adapt, form packs, and change tactics the moment they sense your next move. Luckily, you’ll have plenty of weapons with which to fight these monstrosities, with the devs touting the game having a realistic weaponry system. Of course, since this is a survival horror title, you’ll need to be smart about your gear choices and manage your resources carefully in order to survive.