Not one to have Steelkrill Studio have all the fun, developer Man The Barricades is getting in on horror titles inspired by The Great War with their short anomaly horror title Shellshock, which is out today on Steam.
Inspired by liminal spaces and psychological horror, Shellshock is set in a WW1 trench, where you are a British soldier trapped in an endless looping nightmare. In order to escape your ordeal, you must inspect your surroundings and report anything that is out of place. If you spot an anomalous change, you must report it by going left to Intelligence Dispatch. If everything seems okay, head right.
Playtime for Shellshock clocks in at around 10-30 minutes, depending on your difficulty selection. The difficulty level also determines which trench number you must reach in order to to escape.
If you correctly identify any changes in the trench, you will progress to the next loop. If you fail to correctly identify a change, or you think there was a change when there wasn’t, you’ll go back to trench 0 and start again. Your goal is the reach the final trench and escape. The trench is short, but the differences are randomised in each loop. And sometimes, there are no changes at all.