It’s simply ten quick nights till Halloween, and so I convey you the spooky present of Kitty Horrorshow’s newest assortment of transient experimental games, bundled collectively as Haunted Cities Volume 3. It’s received all of it: candle lighting, spinning out your automotive at night time, and probably the most terrifying flickering I’ve ever skilled.
The assortment gathers collectively 4 games that have been beforehand launched solely to her Patreon supporters, and makes them obtainable to all people without cost. First up is Castle Wormclot, by which you play as a candlekeeper exploring, lighting candles, and musing on the character of snakes, as you’ll be able to see from the header picture above.
Then there’s Seven Days, which takes place in a metropolis decimated by storms and flooding. You discover a home left untouched, and skim in regards to the occupant’s musings on their each day life left behind amongst a crumbling infrastructure.
Ghost Lake actually makes use of Horrorshow’s inclination in direction of low-res worlds. Sickly inexperienced factories all of the sudden looming in entrance of you and spindly lifeless bushes flickering within the facet home windows make for an autumn deal with. And helpfully, downloading the game additionally offers you some directions on the place you’ll be able to drive off the sting of the map “with a bit of wiggling.” (Do be sure you dig into the readme for notes like these in addition to management schemes and content material warnings.)
Finally, there’s Basements, which I can’t let you know a lot about as a result of it creeped me out an excessive amount of. The unholy noise and flickering mixture made me satisfied there can be soar scares, however I can’t verify that these fears are true or only a product of my overactive creativeness. If you’re braver than me, although, please get pleasure from.
Kitty Horrorshow is fairly an outdated hand on the subject of creating all issues surreal and creepy. There’s unusual sepia desert Chyzra, which I liked, and shadowy, glitchy horror game Anatomy, which I confess to not having performed as a result of I like sleeping at night time. Plus, after all, her earlier volumes within the Haunted Cities collection. So in the event you get by way of these 4 and need to dig round for extra Halloween delights, there’s lots to take your decide from.
Haunted Cities Volume Three is out there to obtain without cost on itch.io.
