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Pre-Orders and Switch Demo Available Now for ‘DREDGE’ [Trailer]
Team17 and Black Salt Games have announced that pre-orders for the upcoming Lovecraftian fishing adventure DREDGE are now available on PC via Steam and on console. On top of that, as promised when first revealed, there’s also a demo for you Nintendo Switch players to sink your teeth into in order to get a taste for the game.
Along with the pre-orders for the regular version of the game, there’s also the Digital Deluxe Edition of DREDGE, which includes the base game, the digital soundtrack, an artbook, and the Blackstone Key DLC. The DLC adds the Arterial Engine and Sign of Ruin to the game.
If that’s not enough, there will be a Physical Deluxe Edition of the game for consoles, which is also now available for pre-order at participating retailers. This edition includes a physical poster, the DREDGE artbook and sticker set, the game’s digital soundtrack, and the Blackstone Key DLC.
In DREDGE, you play as a down-on-their-luck fisherman. Someone has tasked you with digging up the past. In order to do so, you’ll have to explore a collection of remote islands while scouring the surrounding waters for a fish and valuable, deep-sea curiosities. However, as you do, you soon discover that there’s something more dangerous than the rocks and shallow reefs lurking in the dark waters at night.
DREDGE arrives on the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series and PC on March 30th. While you wait for the demo to download, check out Harrison’s preview of the game.
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Inspired by 80s Slashers, Short Horror Experience ‘Dead Stop – No Vacancy’ Launches August 13 [Trailer]
Fresh from their work on last year’s Beneath, developer Camel 101 has announced that their next title, a short, standalone first-person horror experience in Dead Stop – No Vacancy, will launch on Steam on August 13. Accompanying the announcement is the release date trailer, which thanks to the narration, is appropriately hammy.
Players in No Vacancy step into the shoes of Nancy, a hard-edged investigative reporter whose journey to the town of Crestfall takes an unexpected turn. Stranded without directions or a GPS signal, she arrives at the remote Paradise Motel just as daylight begins to disappear. What initially appears to be an inconvenient stop soon becomes an investigation into the motel’s dark history, and whatever may be hiding beneath it.
No Vacancy is the first entry in Dead Stop, a new anthology of short, standalone horror games inspired by classic horror stories and unsettling places. In this case, the game takes inspiration from 80s slasher films.
Rather than relying on cutscenes to tell its story, No Vacancy‘s has the player discover the story through the various objects you examine in the game. As such, you’ll also be dealing with various environmental puzzles built around the motel’s dark history. Completing the vibe is the game’s throwback graphics, which don’t quite have the typical PS1-era aesthetic, but it’s enough to give you that old-school feel.
Ahead of the game’s launch, you can also check out the demo via the Steam page.