SSR Wives is a sparky throwback survival horror with romantic intentions and iMacs for save points

"Liminal labyrinths" await, vessel controls encouraged

SSR Wives: The Murder Of My Winter Crush is Silent Hill 3 for radical who similar the chibi proportions of Final Fantasy 9 and also, radical who hoot successful adoration erstwhile they spot a low-poly exemplary of an iMac. I americium some of these people. Created by Hen Studios with a demo connected Steam, it's a sour and sugary blend of endurance fearfulness and romanticist ocular novel. You play 1 of respective anime characters with names specified arsenic Tradgirl and Chudboy, each trapped successful The Town That Time Forgot.

Those mouth-wateringly chubby iMacs? They are prevention points, the section equivalent for Resident Evil's typewriters. Excellent work, game. You person reminded maine of my advancing property successful a mode I really enjoy.

The Town That Time Forgot astir apt should person been named The Town That Time Deliberately Crossed Off The Xmas Card List Because It's An Absolute Shithole. Here you volition find "liminal labyrinths", an abandoned rocket silo, and a "clown carnival". Also an "antiquated bakery", but I wouldn't interaction the bread. It's doubtless liminal bread, with ever angries up my guts. The Steam demo offers up a clump of rusty tunnels and toilets wherever you volition brushwood bare elephantine rats. Later, determination are gnashing pumpkin monsters and assorted mutant clogboggoes with guillotine arms.

Where does the romance constituent acceptable in? Well, if you get to cognize and transportation retired quests for the locals you mightiness beryllium capable to day them, presumably paving the mode for 1 of aggregate endings. Beware, however, that the town's residents are "inflicted with disorder", that the game's terrors are projections of their sins, and that you indispensable "balance their affectional connections with the request to survive". To which end, SSR Wives harbours a sizeable assortment of shiny, real-world guns, which look astir cute successful each character's mitts until you occurrence 1 and crook a rodent into a casserole.

I interest SSR Wives mightiness beryllium throwback to the constituent of being obnoxious. This is simply a crippled that describes non-tank controls arsenic for "cowards", which I would deem "feisty" if the controls worked perfectly: instead, I got chewed isolated by a rat due to the fact that my quality refused to onslaught downward. The Steam leafage lists "classic doorway country transitions" arsenic a feature, which feels similar pandering and makes the crippled dependable similar a jigsaw of references.

Still, this is simply a potent demo, and possibly not arsenic straightforwardly "retro" arsenic billed: there's thing going connected present with the intersection of fourth-wall-nibbling anime puppetry and cathode-ray Konami squalor I'm inactive deciphering. The afloat crippled is retired this year.