We’ve have films like Bug, Slither, Arachnophobia and more to exploit our fears of entomophobia, but what about video games? tinybuild’s Kill It With Fire is more humour than horror, but luckily (and for FPS fans), indie developer Heinn’s Chitin is here to rectify that.

Submitted as part of itch.io’s sewerjam 3 (and available for free on itch.io), there’s not a lot in terms of story for Chitin. Heinn laments this, instead focusing on atmosphere. According to them, their main goal for Chitin was to “try and evoke what I felt going through the rot part of Dark Souls 3 snow DLC.”

But really, do you need much in terms of story when you’re trying to survive as you make your way through a bug-infested building, shooting them as you go? Your revolver has infinite ammo, but it’s offset with a long reload time. Meaning, you’ll need to make your shots count when you have a whole swarm of bugs to deal with, and running isn’t an option. Compounding matters is that as you take damage, bugs will begin to appear on the screen, obscuring and distracting you from the bugs in the environment.

Heinn says that they might expand on the ideas in Chitin “a little bit” in the future, but for now, this is a creepy little FPS that will hopefully be the sign of better things to come.

Thanks to AlphaBetaGamer for spotting this one.