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Upcoming Adventure Game ‘Sons of Saturn’ Explores the Horrors of the Psyche [Trailer]

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Indie developers The Saturn Studio have a little something for those in the mood for some old-school adventure gaming with a dose of psychological horror with their upcoming title, Sons of Saturn. Currently scheduled for a November 2023 release on Steam, Sons of Saturn is a return to the point-and-click adventure games of old, focused on atmosphere and narrative.

Sons of Saturn is set in the abandoned underground city of Minerva, a technological metropolis where the dead still dream, their memories still clinging to life. You’ll be exploring the depths of both the underground city of Minerva and the protagonists’ psyches as you try to fine the cause of your pain and the metaphorical warts that have grown up around it.

Nearly all of the assets used in Sons of Saturn were derived from real-world photos of abandoned locations found all over the world, exuding that liminal space vibe that many horror gamers are going for these days. The images themselves have been given a 16-bit quality to them akin to DreadXP’s Hand of Doom that should remind more than a few readers of other classic PC RPGs.

Currently, the team has a demo available on Steam for you to check out.

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Endless Mode Available Now in New Update for ‘Life Eater’

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Fans of Strange Scaffold and publisher Frosty Pop’s apocalyptic Life Eater have another reason to keep coming back to the game, as the much-anticipated Endless Mode is available now. Best of all, it’s a free update!

The new endless mode gives Life Eater players an arena to determine how long they can evade capture while delaying the end of the world. Collect score points called ZEAL by building an airtight procedure around your sacrifices, investigate the lives of countless procedurally generated kidnapping targets, and survive as long as possible in your personal gauntlet of nightmares.

“We’re so excited to expand the playtime of Life Eater with a uniquely dark and intriguing systemic experience,” says Strange Scaffold founder Xalavier Nelson Jr. “You really just terrorize an entire city of people over the span of decades, now, and I can only hope that I don’t come to regret writing that sentence in a press release.”

For those not in the know, Life Eater (check out Aaron’s review here) is a horror fantasy kidnapping simulator where you play as a druid living in suburbia. You serve a dark entity by abducting and sacrificing specific but vaguely described humans every year to stop the apocalypse. Use a unique video editing-inspired interface to discover the intimate lives of your victims, one schedule block at a time. When the time is right, abduct them before authorities find out.

You can snag a copy of Life Eater on Steam.

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