Strange Scaffold are back at it again with their brand of weirdness. Instead of Saw-esque kidnapping sims or monster-hunting neo-noir shooters, this time you’re just clicking with their dark incremental horror title, Clickolding. Well, there’s also the fact that a masked man sitting in the corner of your hotel room is telling you to do so, unless you want something horrible to happen.
Set for a July 16 release on Steam, with support from newly-formed indie fund Outersloth, Clickolding sounds rather innocuous when you think about it. It’s you and the aforementioned masked man in a hotel room. You’ve got to click when and where the masked man asks of you, solving environmental puzzles. If you leave, you forfeit your change to get money out of the deal, and you can’t come back. If you stay, then the “fun” really begins.
“We exist in a time where it’s hard for a game to be allowed to exist if it doesn’t fit into a clear genre or audience demographic,” says Strange Scaffold studio head Xalavier Nelson Jr. “With the support of Outersloth, and a track record for delivering games that don’t take the easy joke but instead use any topic as an opportunity to deliver a deeper experience, I want to make another project that challenges this environment. Another project that says video games should still step into new, uncomfortable, and undeniably compelling spaces.”