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Surreal Horror Adventure Title ‘Shines Over: The Damned’ Announced for Spring 2024 [Trailer]
Indie developer Firenut Games will have a new horror adventure game for PlayStation 5 owners to tackle this Spring with Shines Over: The Damned. Touted as a “unique experimental adventure”, Shines Over: The Damned places you in a surreal and haunting world “where scares, tension and environmental puzzles surround you, and danger lies in wait.”
The plot for the game is being kept vague for now, other than establishing that you’re in this one alone. Well, not really. You have no name, no weapons. No friends to protect you. You only have yourself and, much like Bloober Team’s Blair Witch, your faithful dog, who will help guide you through the darkness and stay by your side.
As for gameplay, Shines Over: The Damned features “high-tension exploration” from a first-person perspective, with platforming elements to access new areas of the world. There will also be environmental puzzles to solve, each revealing new secrets of this dark world. Thanks to the use of Quixel’s Megascans library, the game’s detailed environments are as beautiful as they are frightening.
You can currently wishlist Shines Over: The Damned from the official PlayStation Store.
Remember back in 2022 when developer Survios had announced that they were teaming up with 20th Century Games to develop a new Alien title? Well seeing as it’s Alien Day, Survios has announced their brand-new VR title, Alien: Rogue Incursion. Coming “Holiday 2024” to the PlayStation VR2, SteamVR, and Quest 3, Rogue Incursion will feature an original story that “fully surrounds players within the terrors of the Alien universe”.
Details on the game are light at the moment, but the official site describes the upcoming title as being “designed by Alien fans for Alien fans”, with Survios aiming to craft a “technically advanced, and frightfully immersive Alien virtual reality game.”
Seeing as Alien: Isolation never got official VR support when it was released, this is obviously a welcome announcement. In the meantime, if you’re keen to experience an Alien game in VR, you can always check out the fan-made mod for Alien: Isolation by Nibre_, which allows both the Steam and Epic Games Store version of Alien: Isolation to be played using the Oculus.
And speaking of Alien: Isolation, as you might expect, it’s got a hefty 80% discount going on at the moment on Steam until May 1. So if you still haven’t grabbed it after all these years, this is as good a time as any.
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