In case you’ve been knocking about VG247 for some time now, you’ll know that I’m a horror nut. It’s my entire jam, most of my private model, and most significantly, my ardour. I don’t know what attracts me to horror essentially, however there’s one thing about exploring the deepest, darkest recesses of individuals’s minds – be it creators or characters – that’s deeply fascinating to me. The aptly named Darkish and Deep, one of many many individuals on this month’s Steam Subsequent Fest, undoubtedly scratches that itch.
Inviting you right into a haunting world made up of Gustave Dore’s art work, Darkish and Deep is an illusory, psychological story of a person generally known as Samuel Choose; he’s a person deeply fascinated by a conspiracy principle podcast, which you’ll bear witness to, however there’s one thing a lot darker lurking beneath the floor. He’s clearly remoted and caught, sad with the place his life has wound up. Throughout the demo that I performed, which featured a lot of the primary a part of the sport and the start of the second half (there are three elements in complete, made up of a number of temporary sections), you play as Samuel as he experiences a nightmarish dilemma: he’s trapped in an ever-changing world, made up of the devils and demons we see in Dore’s art work. They’re hungry, and can cease at nothing to entry the sunshine that Samuel makes use of to make his means by way of this hellish panorama. It’s an excellent mix between the 2 mediums, elevating Gustave Dore’s art work and utilizing it to inform one more story, centuries after Dore’s passing.
Samuel should navigate these claustrophobic corridors – which you need to actually have a look at, by the best way – utilizing frames that reveal completely different elements of the world to him, with different frames serving to him dispel monsters generally known as Crawlers. These frames carry secret messages, too, from an unknown character we’re but to see extra of; however we all know one factor, and that’s that they’re taunting him. And whereas this world Samuel initially explores is deeply alien, there’s moments of familiarity too.
