Indie low-poly horror showcase EEK3 returned this 12 months within the type of an hour-long choice of trailers for upcoming video games, hosted as at all times by a purple skeleton named Skully. Whereas the Nintendo Swap emblem appeared a number of occasions, don’t be concerned, each sport featured is coming to PC.
This 12 months’s complement of trailers included a couple of video games we have seen earlier than, like GoldenEye homage Agent 64: Spies By no means Die, in addition to Ghostlore, which is mainly Diablo 2 solely with monsters from Southeast Asian folklore, and Signalis, which reimagines The Factor as a cyberpunk anime with Resident Evil’s stock and Silent Hill’s ambiance.
However there have been lots extra we hadn’t seen earlier than, a lot of which at the moment are on my wishlist. Like Mom of Many (opens in new tab), wherein you are a mouse farmer who has to develop greens, prepare dinner meals, and struggle to finish the curse your loved ones suffers below by defeating hordes of enemies with a scythe. Or Loretta (opens in new tab), a rural noir journey set within the Nineteen Forties that is about protecting up a homicide. Or Fish Cymophis (opens in new tab), which begins out like an atypical fishing sport the place you discover a lake on a motorboat, then switches to horror as soon as evening falls and also you turn into the prey.
A bunch of the video games highlighted at EEK3 can be found to attempt proper now on the newest Haunted PS1 Demo Disc (opens in new tab), which accommodates 18 demos in all. You would possibly like to leap into retro FPS Enchain (opens in new tab), which supplies you a hook on a to air-juggle skeletons after you’ve got softened them up, or Sorry, We’re Open (opens in new tab), a grocery store administration RPG the place you rent a celebration of workers and got down to clear up a haunted retail institution.
Of those I attempted, my favourite was Worry the Highlight (opens in new tab), a stealth-horror sport the place you are trapped in a college after darkish with a lamp-headed monster. Fixing puzzles whereas taking part in my flashlight over the partitions for clues was strongly harking back to Midwich Elementary College from Silent Hill in the absolute best means. It is due out this 12 months too.
