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Scythe Dev Team’s VR Horror Title ‘Return to Northbury Grove’ Available Now for Free on Steam! [Trailer]

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If you’re a fan of tinyBuild and Scythe Dev Team’s fast food horror cooking sim Happy’s Humble Burger Farm, the team has a treat for you with their follow-up to their first-person horror game, Northbury Grove. Not only is Return to Northbury Grove, Scythe’s new immersive VR horror title, available today on Steam, it’s also available for free!

Return to Northbury Grove puts players in the virtual shoes of Liam Murphy, an aspiring actor who’s looking to land the role of a lifetime at the infamous Rock the Warehouse music festival. However, after arriving at the concert grounds, Liam ends up kidnapped and thrown into the basement of the Spector Forest Slasher’s infamous killing house. Now, Liam must use his wits and bravery to survive the various traps within the house and escape with his life.

The title is an obvious love letter to the slasher genre that requires you to practice stealth in order to avoid catching the ire of the Spector Forest Slasher. Not only are you required to keep an eye (and ear) out all around you, but the game is 100% physically simulated, requiring you to keep from bumping into anything that might cause unwanted noise. Your choices while you try to escape also matter. You’ll have to make decisions that impact your survival in real-time.

To add even more replay value, Return to Northbury Grove features adaptive AI, making no two playthroughs the same, with the killer adapting to your actions in real-time. There are also modifiers that you can unlock by beating the game to add even more challenge. That also includes something called “Happy the Humble Heifer”.

And if you’re keen on checking out the previous game in the series, you can download Northbury Grove from the team’s itch.io page.

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Edutainment Horror Game ‘Amanda The Adventurer’ Coming to PS5, Xbox and Mobile This Year

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Eight months after arriving on the Nintendo Switch, DreadXP and developer MANGLEDmaw Games have announced that their edutainment horror game Amanda The Adventurer will be getting PlayStation, Xbox releases, as well as releases on Android and iOS later this year. The announcement comes as the teams continue their work on the upcoming sequel.

In Amanda the Adventurer, you are Riley Park. Riley has inherited their Aunt Kate’s house following her death. Starting with the seemingly banal task of digging through their reclusive aunt Kate’s attic, Riley comes across multiple VHS tapes. At first glance, the videos seem innocently childish and charming, depicting two best buddies—Amanda and Wooly—in an edutainment-styled escapade that features that 90’s-style CGI.

As Riley watches more and more episodes of the titular Amanda the Adventurer, a creeping, sickening feeling emerges that something is watching back. Riley soon realizes that Amanda and Wooly seem to be communicating directly through the television set. Despite internal pleas to stop, Riley is compelled to continue watching the tapes. It’s almost as if Amanda needs something…and upsetting her wouldn’t be a wise choice.

You can also find Amanda The Adventurer on PC via Steam.

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