Video Games
First-Person Psychological Horror Title ‘BrokenLore: DON’T PLAY’ Announced [Trailer]
Exactly one year after the release of BrokenLore: DON’T WATCH, Serafini Productions has announced another entry in its BrokenLore series with BrokenLore: DON’T PLAY. Coming to PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, DON’T WATCH sees the return of characters from previous entries in the psychological horror anthology.
BrokenLore: DON’T PLAY is a first-person psychological horror game that follows Hideo, a young hikikomori obsessed with video games and the need for recognition. When he receives a mysterious experimental console in the mail, he decides to play it, convinced it could change his life.
But each level brings increasingly unsettling consequences into the real world. His apartment begins to shift, time starts to distort, and something dark slowly emerges as the line between what he plays and what he lives begins to break down.
Across five levels of the mysterious experimental game, each with its own rules, mechanics, and hidden dangers, Hideo is drawn deeper into his obsession. He must survive the consequences in the real world as his apartment slowly transforms after every session.
BrokenLore: DON’T PLAY is part of the BrokenLore saga, a psychological horror anthology where each game is a standalone entry, yet each hides fragments of a deeper truth. Through secrets, environments, and hidden details, every chapter reveals pieces of an unseen narrative, slowly forming the larger mystery known as Elysium.
The BrokenLore saga already includes three released titles available on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox: UNFOLLOW, DON’T WATCH and LOW. The next installment, BrokenLore: FOLLOW, is set to be released on June 1st.
Video Games
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.