The Exit 8 publishers PLAYISM were busy during their eponymous PLAYISM Game Show event, unveiling several new titles, including four new horror games, with the earliest due later this year.
Fans of Rusted Moss will be happy to know that Emlise and developer Mini Bunnies are returning to that game’s world with Iron Bramble, a momentum-based Metroidvania game that inherits its predecessor’s physics-based grappling hook action. Launching on Steam in 2027, the game is set in a mysterious giant mechanism known as the “Iron Bramble,” the game mixes sci-fi and dark fantasy, where players follow Lilac as she battles robots possessed by the souls of the dead.
Coming to Steam later this year is developer roccay’s The Dream Of A Cockspur, a point-and-click horror adventure title that sees players stranded on a desolate island. Six investigators have come to examine a mysterious celestial body that has landed on the island. The investigation proceeded smoothly for two weeks, but the day before the researchers were set to return to the mainland, their boat is mysteriously damaged. What follows is a surreal adventure where nothing is as it seems.
Complimenting The Dream Of A Cockspur in the adventure department is developer .iris and their 3D psychological horror adventure game A Passing in the Night. Also launching later this year on Steam, the game centers around Kai, who awakens in the dead of night from a dream. What follows is the Kai aimlessly walking around a surreal town until he meets a demon, who gives him one hour to decide whether or not to give up his most precious memory in exchange for freedom from worldly pain. During this little time he is given, Kai must decide to keep his memories and deal with the pain of waking life, or to sacrifice what is precious to him and escape reality. Or will he continue to wander the streets, searching for answers in the dark where strange beings await him?
Lastly, developer LydiaBluebell revealed their 2D exploration horror adventure game Midnight Train: New Moon, which will head to Steam next year. A remake of the free 2020 game Midnight Train, New Moon follows Luna Wyndell, a girl traveling by train in search of a certain place. Before she knows it, all the passengers inside the train have vanished without a trace, and the train has stopped in a strange void. The only other person remaining on the train is Neil, an aspiring detective. Together, the two leave the train and enter a building in the void. There, the two discover a strange pocket watch, along with a note: “Find the next train. It departs in three hours. If you fail, you’ll be trapped here forever.”