I like a video game that tells me every part I have to know proper there within the title. Like Bleakstead. Bleakstead is a couple of sure place, a stead, if you’ll, which is bleak. Thanks Bleakstead! It additionally has simply unimaginable stars.
In Bleakstead, you by accident oversleep and find yourself on the last cease on the bus, a tiny desert city at night time. At the bus cease is a staticky determine who appears to be anticipating you. When you converse to them, the digital camera pulls again to border them inside the bus station, sitting again casually, however after they end talking it snaps again to the place you have been earlier than, which in my case was extraordinarily shut as much as their nonexistent face. It made me leap. This is the type of game that Bleakstead is; you’ll scare your self enjoying it despite the fact that it doesn’t exit of its strategy to scare you.
The bus station pal will level you within the path of different areas of city and NPCs that you could be need to converse to, who will level you onwards in flip, chaining into an exploration of more and more bizarre issues. You may simply wander round and stare on the sky, which is beautiful. Everything on the town is so practical and brown, as if somebody constructed it to keep away from the magical glittery TV static that lights up the heavens. But it’s inescapable.
I haven’t completed the game but, largely as a result of I obtained distracted by the cosmos and in addition the large expanses of desert. But that’s value your time anyway. Honestly, it might be value it only for that pixelly impact that I really like in quietly horror-adjacent atmospheric games like this, which simply relentlessly exploits the truth that people will see faces or figures wherever for those who give them half an opportunity. Happy October!
Bleakstead is offered for pay what you need with no minimal on itch.io.
