At Summer season Sport Fest, Blumhouse Video games revealed a complete slate of horror video games it’s publishing within the close to future, because the horror movie studio turns its eye towards a brand new medium. The video games proven off embody Sam Barlow’s upcoming horror recreation titled Challenge C which is being made in collaboration with Brandon Cronenberg.
Blumhouse got here to Summer season Sport Fest with a sizzle reel that confirmed off an enormous number of horror video games that ran the gamut from first-person horror shooters to what seemed to be a farming recreation with a horror twist.
Crisol: Theater of Idols was up first and seems to be a first-person shooter from Vermila Studios. It’s the workforce’s debut recreation and appears to take inspiration from the darker points of twentieth century Spanish folklore. Gamers must use their very own blood as ammunition in opposition to the forces of evil lurking on this nightmare rendition of Spain. Crisol seems to be appropriately gory, however the creepiest factor concerning the recreation is definitely the enormous puppets seemingly chasing after you the entire time.
Grave Seasons has been billed as a “supernatural murder-mystery farming simulator,” and seems to be mixing points of cozier genres with an unsettling serial killer twist. You’re the new farmer on the town, and should domesticate friendships (and perhaps even love) as you construct up what you are promoting, however the entire time, it’s essential to additionally uncover which member of your neighborhood is a serial killer murdering the others.
Sleep Awake, from developer EYES OUT, comes by means of a stunning collaboration between the director of Spec Ops: The Line and Robin Finck of the band 9 Inch Nails. It’s a first-person journey title that appears precisely as trippy and out of this world as you may count on from the expertise behind the sport. Sleep Awake takes place in a far-off future the place persons are disappearing of their sleep, and people who don’t disappear must survive the demise cults of the final metropolis on Earth.
Concern the Highlight, a “creepy love letter to traditional 90s teen horror tales” from Cozy Sport Friends, is a horror recreation with a retro presentation by which pals break into a faculty after hours, remedy a decades-old thriller, and attempt to survive the evening. The Simulation, from Playmestudio, is a horror recreation a couple of online game that’s discovered on the scene of a criminal offense. You play a recreation designer who plumbs the depths of the never-before-seen recreation for clues as to what occurred.
Lastly, although we’ve identified about Challenge C from Sam Barlow and Half-Mermaid Studio for some time, particulars have largely been scarce. They nonetheless are, however at Summer season Sport Fest, we did get information that the sport is being made with the assistance of Brandon Cronenberg, the director of Infinity Pool and the son of the famend horror director David Cronenberg.
Altogether, Blumhouse appears to be making main strikes into video games, and with an thrilling lineup like this, I’m wanting ahead to seeing how they make waves in one in every of gaming’s hottest genres.
