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First-Person Puzzle Horror Game ‘oneway.eve’ Launches on Steam October 7 [Trailer]
It’s been a long while since developer/publisher Disordered Media dropped the demo for their Survival Horror title oneway.exe, but the wait is paying off on October 7 when the first chapter of multiple new realities launches on Steam.
Influenced by internet culture, oneway.exe sees players trapped inside an unfinished game created by three developers whose lives took a tragic turn. You’ll explore the haunted halls of UNTITLED.EXE to discover digital horrors underlying reality itself. Along the way, you’ll meet an ensemble cast of eight characters inspired by scary internet stories as they claw their way into real life from digital realms “beyond comprehension.”
“Our game is more inspired by internet culture than ‘games’ as a medium,” said Bugs Ray, Co-Founder at Disordered Media. “Being online at a young age, we wanted to make a game that pays homage to various eras of culture,” said Spider Ray, Co-Founder. “Flash animations, online forums, kids’ websites, horror videos, creepypastas — we want others to experience the feeling these sub-cultures provided, but in a new interactive way.”
And as mentioned, if you need a refresher, the demo from last year is still very much available. The demo allows players to navigate seven bespoke, horror nostalgia-fuelled paths, racing towards a “sprawling tree of conclusions.”
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Bloody Body Horror Revealed in ‘Stellar Blade: Blood Rain’, Currently in Development [Trailer]
Shift Up has shifted things dramatically from 2024’s action-adventure game Stellar Blade, offering up a body horror bonanza in the newly announced sequel, Stellar Blade: Blood Rain. The sequel is currently early in development, but if the trailer is any indication, players will be in for plenty of body horror.
Continuing the story from the original Stellar Blade, Blood Rain will star a new protagonist named Eve. Earth has been abandoned, and what is left of humanity has fled to a Colony in outer space.
Shift Up had mentioned during a Q&A following its latest earnings presentation last month that development on Blood Rain (which was still unannounced at the time) was progressing smoothly, and was on track to meet their targeted quality standards.
Shift Up stated that with this new title it would be transitioning to a first-party service model, effectively moving away from the restrictions the game experienced with original publisher Sony, which had the game under an exclusivity agreement for the PlayStation 5. “This will allow us to lead marketing strategies that fully reflect the distinctive identity of the Stellar Blade IP, and we expect to communicate the unique appeal of its universe to players more directly and effectively.”
Whether this means that Xbox Players will finally be able to play the original game (or its sequel) is still not clear. Meanwhile, Stellar Blade is reportedly being ported to the Nintendo Switch 2, but no official confirmation has been made.