Distrust is nearly essentially the most John Carpenter-ish tribute recreation you possibly can hope for. The indie title, which got here out final 12 months, was one among my favourite weirdo diamonds within the tough of 2017. The recreation’s writer ran a promotion primarily based on in-game collectibles and a giant cruise as reward. I’d by no means seen any follow-up on this, so I wakened this morning questioning: What occurred to Distrust’s Antarctic cruise?
Publisher Alawar Premium is maybe higher identified for his or her bleak Orwellian surveillance simulator Behloder, however Distrust is the form of mission I spent a 12 months wanting ahead to. It’s mainly the film The Thing, with aliens and (you already know) mistrust amongst a bunch of scientists which might be making an attempt to outlive a frozen hellscape, sleep deprivation, and different fleshy weak human issues. The recreation additionally splits from the Carpenter jumping-off level by making the aliens actually weird and including layers of mechanics that make for fascinating science fiction journey.
Here’s the trailer if you happen to’ve by no means seen the sport in motion:
The recreation underwent a lot of nearly fast updates, as among the randomization didn’t sit proper with gamers that thought it created an unreasonable stage of issue. After that was patched, a co-op mode was added, that I’m nonetheless but to strive. But late final 12 months, a particular version of the sport was briefly reside on Steam known as Distrust: Antarctic Cruise version. For gamers that might discover and gather the 5 torn items of a hidden ticket, a random participant to have unlocked the achievement throughout this time would win a ten day Antarctic cruise. I’d simply by no means heard what got here from this and for such a intelligent promotion, somebody ought to have made an even bigger deal about it.
Well, we did a bit of digging and it seems the rewards for journey (and a few good jackets!) have been paid out earlier in 2018, through a reside random quantity generator video as seen under.
So congrats to whomever took a really chilly cruise and kudos to firms matching in-game collectibles with cute touches like this. Unless this was all only a plan to kidnap a gamer and substitute them with a parasitic host. In that case, we welcome our new alien overlords.
You can take a look at Distrust on Steam.
