Video Games
Talk With The Dead in New ‘World of Darkness’ Audio Game ‘The Orpheus Device’
World of Darkness fans have a plethora of games coming down the road, as well as a couple already available this year. So what’s another? The trick is that this next game is played through your smart speakers. World of Darkness and Earplay have just revealed The Orpheus Device, a free audio game set in the Wraith: The Oblivion universe, and is now available on iOS, Alexa, and Google Assistant smart speakers.
Authored by Dave Grossman, the Narrative Designer behind Telltale’s The Walking Dead and others, and Wraith: The Oblivion writer Richard Dansky, The Orpheus Device has you discover the secrets of a haunted house, and using your smart speakers (aka The eponymous Orpheus Device) as a channel to speak with a family of ghosts.
The story for the game concerns the Martens: a suffering family, bound together by bitterness, resentment, and spite. Their restless spirits lurk in the house they inhabited years ago, when they were alive. They don’t communicate well with each other, but you can speak with them using stolen credentials to access a machine called The Orpheus Device. You can explore their secrets, learn how they died, and examine what forces still hold them.
You can find out more about the title (and how to get started) by visiting its website.
Eager to dive into Snoring Dog Games’ follow-up to their first game The Flayed Man with Thorner? You’re in luck, as the devteam has announced that Thorner will be getting a Steam demo on July 30. And to celebrate, they’ve released a new trailer, which drops a few tidbits of what to expect with the demo.
Along with the quality pixel art, the Thorner demo will feature 10-15 minutes of “terror, dread and suspense”, with three possible endings based on your psychometrics. The full game will expand upon this, with the ending you receive being based on the choices you make regarding Colin’s thoughts, words, and actions.
The demo will also feature an atmospheric soundtrack, with demo-exclusive tracks. And of course, the demo sports plenty of weird, grotesque nature-based horror “that will make you think twice about going for a walk in the woods.”
In Thorner, you are Colin Snead, a military veteran. Haunted by your time in the service, you flee to the Scottish wilderness attempting to leave your past behind. However, you will find that spilled blood is not easily forgiven, and you are not alone. The land knows what you did. The land judges. Thorner awaits.