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New ‘Blight: Survival’ Developer Update Provides New Game Footage [Watch]
Coinciding with crossing 1.5 million wishlists on Steam, Behaviour Interactive and Haenir Studio have released a development update video regarding their upcoming medieval co-op action-horror game, Blight: Survival. Alongside new in-engine screenshots that provide a small glimpse at gruesome combat finishers, the developer diary also showcases new footage for the game.
“Hitting 1.5 million wishlists is incredible,” said Ulrik Langvandsbråten, Creative Director and Cofounder at Haenir Studio. “We’re deeply grateful for the enthusiasm around Blight: Survival, and we’re working hard to deliver an experience that truly rewards that excitement. Partnering with Behaviour made it clear that to do the game justice, we needed to rebuild our core systems from the ground up. That reset has elevated everything, and we can’t wait to show more to future players.”
In addition to revealing new gameplay, the developers confirmed that Blight: Survival is currently running small scale playtests with cohorts of players picked from their official Discord. The team states that these early sessions are meant to give players their initial chance to experience the game firsthand and directly influence its ongoing development.
According to Ash Pannell, Senior Creative Director at Behaviour Interactive, Blight: Survival is being designed to be a “brutal, visceral game” for players. ‘’We’ve started ramping up on small scale playtests, so for any players interested in shaping the next phase of the game, you can join our Discord now.’’
First announced back in 2022, Blight: Survival takes place in the no man’s land between two desperate kingdoms locked in a ceaseless war. Within this realm of death and decay, a new strain of Blight has erupted from the remains of the fallen. Fed and strengthened by the blood that’s been spilled, it rapidly spreads, turning man into monster. As a result, the call goes out for those brave enough to take on the dead with the promise of wealth as a reward.
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.
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