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‘The Backrooms’-Inspired Horror-Adventure Game ‘The Bathrooms’ Arrives May 17th [Trailer]

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The Backrooms internet phenomena (which has been capitalized upon in video game and soon in film form) is still ripe for picking. Developer/publisher Hidden Palace has their own inspired take coming later this month with The Bathrooms, which is set to arrive on Steam on May 17th. As you’d expect, you’ll be exposed “a plethora of strange, unexplainable occurrences and unnatural irregularities that are typically not fully understood.”

The story goes that you wake up near a foggy, deserted school with no memory of what happened. You soon discover that your beloved dog Shibosu has gone missing, having been kidnapped by the Custodian. You must now brave the realm of cold, endless halls to find him, with the hard part then being to escape the nightmare using your wits and skill. Complicating matters is that you discover that you’re being hunted by strange entities all the while. Not to mention the custodian.

The Bathrooms features a procedurally-generated world with nonlinear gameplay, meaning that no two games will ever be the same. You can choose to face your foes head-on with a weapon if you are brave, or choose a stealthier approach to avoid confrontation. Your survival in this nightmarish dreamscape depends on you having optimum “copium” levels. Inhale regularly and keep your copium tank full, or face an instant demise.

As you might expect, you’ll have to find ways to obtain copium in order to progress. Along the way, you may ponder your orb, a magical seeing stone with mystical revelations guiding you towards your goals, and sometimes warning you of danger. Use it wisely.

Writer/Artist/Gamer from the Great White North. I try not to be boring.

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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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