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[Trailer] Enter a Nightmarish Carnival With Point-And-Click Title ‘Strangeland’ on May 25th
Fans of old-school point and click horror games like Sanitarium have something to look forward to with developer Wormwood Studios upcoming title, Strangeland (no relation to Dee Snider). In fact, you won’t have to wait very long for the title, as it’ll be releasing on Steam on May 25th.
Based on their success with their previous title, Primordia, Strangeland is described as “[integrating] a compelling narrative with engaging puzzles.” The story has you waking up in a nightmarish carnival, only to see a woman hurl herself down a bottomless well for your sake. It only gets stranger from there, as you find clues and help from jeering ravens, an eyeless scribe, a living furnace, a mismade mermaid and more of the inhabitants of the carnival.
In a news update on Strangeland‘s Steam page, one of the developers sums up their decisions to go the horror route, in case you were having any doubts about this game. “Strangeland’s themes can be developed best through the medium of horror. Other genres are certainly well suited to depicting loss (losing another; losing oneself) and rediscovery. But they come at the problem more obliquely. For my dollar, fantastical horror has the benefit of letting you come at those feelings head-on, to give them their full enormity.”
Physical media fanatics can rejoice when it comes to The Chinese Room and publisher Secret Mode’s upcoming narrative horror game Still Wakes the Deep. Alongside the digital version of the game that’s set to launch on June 18 on PC via Steam, PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series, PlayStation owners will also be able to snag the physical version of Still Wakes the Deep on the same day.
Described as a welcome update for console players “whose greatest fear is the death of physical media,” the Still Wakes the Deep physical edition will be available from online and retail stores in North America and Europe. No word on if the Xbox Series will be getting the same treatment.
Sadly, there doesn’t appear to be any additional goodies with the physical disc. But, given that this guarantees you’ll have a copy of Still Wakes the Deep that you can pop into your console and play without the need to download it again, that’s a small price to pay.
Still Wakes the Deep takes place in 1975, where disaster has struck the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland. You are one of the oil rig workers on the Beira D rig, fighting for his life through a vicious storm, perilous surroundings, and the dark, freezing North Sea waters. All lines of communication have been severed. All exits are gone. And something has snuck on board, leaving you to not only restore function to the rig, but also deal with the unknowable horror.
And keep an eye out for the upcoming mini documentary on Still Wakes the Deep, which is scheduled to arrive around April 30th.
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