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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.
Black Tabby Games has dropped a little update on the progress for Scarlet Hollow, announcing that writing work on their planned expansion to the game’s first five episodes has finished, with the team pivoting to the art. Testing for the update is set to begin in “about a couple of weeks,” though if you’re a Patreon member, you can get early access to it.
The update adds around 70,000 words of new and remastered content, with most of it expanding some of the shorter sections. The update also tweaks certain aspects of gameplay, as well as adding more dialogue (obviously) between characters, and even revamps one of the endings to the fifth episode.
The team also confirmed that writing for Episode 6 is well underway, though no release date has been announced.
Currently in Early Access on Steam, Scarlet Hollow is an immersive horror-mystery with sharp writing, impactful choices, and meticulously hand-drawn art. What was supposed to be a quiet getaway in the rural mountains of North Carolina to meet your long-lost cousin and comfort her through her mother’s funeral, has turned into a nightmare of cryptids and other supernatural horrors. You only have to survive a week. But can you get to the bottom of these mysteries haunting Scarlet Hollow before they claim your life?
If you’re keen on learning more about the game, check out Aaron’s review of the first five chapters.