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‘Postal’ Spin-Off Shooter ‘Postal: Brain Damaged’ Announced For Consoles and PC in 2021
We’re still waiting on the full release of Postal 4: No Regerts, but that’s not stopping Running With Scissors and developers Hyperstrange and CreativeForge Games. They’ve announced a spin-off of the Postal series with Postal: Brain Damaged, a retro-styled first-person shooter due out for consoles and PC via Steam in 2021.
“They just don’t make badass shooters like they used to,” said Running With Scissors founder Vince Desi in a press release. “Brain Damaged takes the torch from all the pretenders while excreting everything fans want to see from the series that once birthed ‘The Worst Game Ever (Trademark).’ The Dude is back and dirtier than ever!”
In Brain Damaged, The Postal Dude has taken one too many hits to the head. While trying to sleep it off (along with being in a drunken, drugged-up stupor), he awakens in a psychedelic, grotesque, utterly twisted dream world. Seriously. You have asylum patients with dildo arms, serial killer grandmas wielding walkers with deadly precision, and probe-happy aliens looking for a rear assault of The Postal Dude’s hindquarters.
Players will shoot (and urinate) through stages of escalating insanity. Strafe, dash, slide, and bunny hop through massive retro-styled stages, with each of the twisted fantasies offering new challenges with “the hardcore spirit of badass ‘90s shooters”.
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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.