Talk about promo games usually make me consider excessive profile stuff like Carmen Sandiego invading Google Earth, so I’ve obtained to tip a weather-beaten stetson to IFC movies for going low-fi with The Wind. They’ve tapped Airdorf, solo dev behind the Faith sequence of bible-quoting exorcise ’em ups to supply a brief browser horror game primarily based on their upcoming film. It’s only some minutes lengthy and playable in your browser here, however packs in some efficient chills which have me within the movie, so it did its job. If you’d somewhat simply peek from behind the couch, there’s a trailer beneath.
Judging by the movie trailer (additionally on the game’s web page), the game tells an abridged model of the movie’s ultimate act. After what’s presumably meant to be a barely tongue-in-cheek reference to The Oregon Trail, the game places you within the footwear of the movie’s protagonist, Lizzy. She’s a tricky however unusual plainswoman dwelling out in the course of Nowhereesville, USA who apparently is coping with a possible little bit of demonic haunting. It’s good topic materials for Airdorf, though Lizzy appears to unravel most of her issues with a shotgun as an alternative of holy religion. Doom-guy would approve.
I truthfully want it was a bit longer and left gamers extra time to ponder their isolation and the cruel pseudo-8-bit sound of the wind whipping previous your own home earlier than entering into weirdness, but it surely feels just a little bit churlish to criticise one thing so small. What surprises me is that it exists in any respect. While a couple of fashionable YouTube people have streamed the Faith games earlier than, they’re nonetheless area of interest stuff, main me to imagine that somebody on the movie distributor has good style in low-fi horror games.
Perhaps even the weirder fringes of games have gotten more and more seen to the skin world. Let’s not overlook that Jeff Minter’s Polybius was the centrepiece in a recent Nine Inch Nails music video. Bombastic motion film The Expendables went and tapped Free Lives to supply Broforce spin-off The Expendabros (which continues to be accessible free now). It’s a given that folks learn about Sonic, Mario, Fortnite and Halo, however a world the place unusual people might simply casually chat about bizarre DOS-styled horror games lurking in darkish corners on Itch? I might reside with that future.
If you want what you noticed in The Wind: The Game, then you definitely’ll in all probability wish to take a look at Airdorf’s Faith series on Itch, that are comparable in fashion however longer and extra open. The first game has a free model, and the second has a demo. The movie hits US screens on April fifth.
