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Demo Now Available for Cold War Horror FPS ‘Shadow Project’
SK Studios has released a demo on Steam for their upcoming tactical horror shooter, Shadow Project. Slated to be released in full later this year, the demo for Shadow Project features two levels from the full game, with the press release touting that despite the game’s graphical fidelity, almost any PC from the past nine years can comfortably run the game. This in turn will extend to the full game.
Built on a unique blend of action-shooter and survival horror, Shadow Project takes place in the year 1990, nearing the end of the Cold War between the USSR and the United States. However, rumors describing large-scale unethical human experimentation in the USSR have been circulating for several months, but were recently given confirmation from a Soviet defector, who has exposed the truth about Shadow Project. The Soviet Union has established installations across its territory with the intended purpose of developing humans and animals into machines of war. You are part of an American team that has been tasked with taking down these Soviet military facilities suspected of housing Shadow Project laboratories.
Your mission will take you across a range of biomes, from dense and lush forests and desolate abandoned villages, to snow capped mountains. You’ll be armed with an arsenal of historically accurate weaponry in a wide variety, though supplies and ammunition will be limited. As a result, you’ll also need to employ stealth tactics in order to avoid encounters with the horrific experiments you’ll come across during the mission.
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Inspired by 80s Slashers, Short Horror Experience ‘Dead Stop – No Vacancy’ Launches August 13 [Trailer]
Fresh from their work on last year’s Beneath, developer Camel 101 has announced that their next title, a short, standalone first-person horror experience in Dead Stop – No Vacancy, will launch on Steam on August 13. Accompanying the announcement is the release date trailer, which thanks to the narration, is appropriately hammy.
Players in No Vacancy step into the shoes of Nancy, a hard-edged investigative reporter whose journey to the town of Crestfall takes an unexpected turn. Stranded without directions or a GPS signal, she arrives at the remote Paradise Motel just as daylight begins to disappear. What initially appears to be an inconvenient stop soon becomes an investigation into the motel’s dark history, and whatever may be hiding beneath it.
No Vacancy is the first entry in Dead Stop, a new anthology of short, standalone horror games inspired by classic horror stories and unsettling places. In this case, the game takes inspiration from 80s slasher films.
Rather than relying on cutscenes to tell its story, No Vacancy‘s has the player discover the story through the various objects you examine in the game. As such, you’ll also be dealing with various environmental puzzles built around the motel’s dark history. Completing the vibe is the game’s throwback graphics, which don’t quite have the typical PS1-era aesthetic, but it’s enough to give you that old-school feel.
Ahead of the game’s launch, you can also check out the demo via the Steam page.