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Escape a Soviet Facility in Psychological Horror Game ‘Dread Eagle’ [Trailer]
More Soviet horror gaming is headed your way later this year with Tarba Paul Cornel and Abdul Rafy’s psychological horror title Dread Eagle. Launching in Early Access on Steam, the game sees you (or you and your friends) trapped in a secret Romanian facility, where you must uncover some disturbing truths about what’s gone on in the facility, and face what remains of the test subjects.
Blending psychological horror and competitive mechanics with unsettling narrative themes, Dread Eagle is set in Unitatea 91-C, and places players at the center of a brutal Soviet experiment led by Sebastian Dobrev. As the facility slowly collapses under the weight of its past, players must explore its depths, and make it out alive.
Dread Eagle offers up a singleplayer campaign and competitive multiplayer modes, including 1v1 and 2v2 gameplay. In the latter, each round begins with a twisted form of Russian roulette, where players are linked to a shared gas system and one pump determines the outcome. Losing the gamble does not mean instant death, but instead sends the defeated player into an execution chamber.
The winning player must carry out the execution while surviving environmental hazards and unpredictable threats. Meanwhile, the defeated player returns as a hostile entity, actively attempting to stop the execution and protect their former body, turning every round into a tense psychological confrontation.
Per the developers, the game will remain in Early Access “for as long as it needs,” with the plan to add new levels, challenges, enemies, perks, and deeper customization over time. In addition to new content, the game will receive tweaks to improve balance, performance, and stability in order to “deliver a richer, more polished experience at full release.”
While not quite Snakes on a Plane or Red Eye, co-developers Liquid Static Studio and Snapping Turtle have something darker in mind with their upcoming job-sim horror game, Night Plane. Coming to Steam later this year, the game has you doing the expected work as a flight attendant, but with the added bonus of trying to find demons hiding amongst the passengers.
It’s 1999, and it’s your first day on the job. You must do the usual things as a flight attendant: welcoming passengers aboard, check tickets, and attend to their needs. However, shape-shifting entities may attempt to come aboard disguised as humans. So, your additional job in Night Plane is to question passengers, and find a way to remove any unauthorized non-human visitors from the plane.
That also leads to assisting passengers in unorthodox ways inside the plane, outside the plane, and in places not listed in your training manual. To make things even more complicated, you’ll need to make tough decisions with irreversible consequences. Naturally, the company will not be held accountable for any mistakes you make. You live with them.
Oh, and seeing as this is a plane, you may encounter some turbulence while in flight, along with power failures, lightning strikes and more. All of which, including your decisions, will lead to one of the multiple endings in Night Plane.
If you wish to get in on the fun prior to the game’s release, you can sign up for the playtest via the Steam page.