80s-themed survival horror I Hate This Place is a gentler Darkwood based on a celebrated comic series

Out adjacent week, has a demo now

If you find Darkwood excessively dark, possibly you volition similar I Hate This Place, an isometric (is it, tho?) endurance fearfulness based connected the comic publication of the aforesaid sanction from Kyle Starks and Artyom Topilin. I Hate This Place is acheronian – it has bare tentacle nests, antlered stalkers, and spiders of galore sizes – but going by the trailer, astatine least, it’s thing similar arsenic harrowing and hollowing arsenic the Acid Wizard game. The colours are agleam and splashy, the munsters, funky: deliberation Stranger Things.

It occurs to maine that we request a thematic acheronian standard for ‘dark’ video games, possibly comparable to water extent categorisation. I’d accidental Darkwood is close down determination successful the hadopelagic trenches. I Hate This Place? A denizen of the precocious bathypelagic (Midnight) zone, truthful far. Here's that trailer.

In I Hate This Place – which has a demo connected Steam – you play Elena, a grumpy teenage miss exploring the forests, bunkers and derelict townships of a “cursed land”. There’s a day-night cycle: erstwhile the prima is up, you explore, find resources and blueprints, trade gear, and acceptable up shelters. When the prima is down, you effort not to die.

The game’s humanoid mutants are blind, pursuing the dependable of your footsteps. As for the spiders, they scope from swarms of babe arachnids successful eggs to elephantine jumping varieties that airs arsenic rocks. There’s besides the requisite spider queen, who tin tangle you successful webs and impale you. All of these badniks are susceptible to bullets, but I ideate it’s wiser to debar them, for the astir part.

What is Elena’s motivation, too not getting squelched by a centaur oregon devoured by a tarantula? She is simply a chasing the spectre of the Horned Man. That'll beryllium the dude who keeps doing Alan Wake 2-style cinematic stings astatine her portion she's rifling done cupboards, I expect. She besides has a missing mother. This seems similar a instauration for psychodrama, though I’m not expecting Alan Wake levels of soap opera, going by the trailer. Elena sounds rather indifferent, for a miss astatine imperishable hazard of being skewered oregon torn successful half. I'm not convinced she truly does hatred this place.

Anyway, the crippled is retired remarkably soon - 29th January, successful fact. The devs precocious did a Reddit AMA if you privation to perceive much astir trouble modes, ammo scarcity and truthful forth.