Former DreadXP and Important Reflex alum Ted Hentschke has teamed up with Jakub Bałuszek-Sobolewski to kind Black Lantern Collective, a brand new writer devoted to horror video games.
Described as an “all-new indie writer leveraging the fervour and experience for established horror savants to carry a curated assortment of chills, thrills, and unease to the freaky plenty”, Black Lantern hit the bottom working with ten recreation bulletins, however kicks off its launch schedule with Captum Mortum, an atmospheric psychological horror recreation coming in August.
“Caput Mortum is a brief first-person horror expertise impressed by retro 3D dungeon crawlers and survival horror video games,” the group explains. “Delve right into a tower of forgotten nightmares, the place each step could possibly be your final. Overcome horrors from past loss of life and unlock the secrets and techniques of forbidden data.”
Additionally on the way in which is a first-person narrative journey “about tagging billboards and watching your home burn down”, Youngsters of Saturn, rogue-like cube construct Useless Finger Cube: A Billionaire Killing Sport whereby you tackle pole cube towards blood-thirsty demon billionaires – as you do – and a “darkly quirky” RPG known as Muffles’ Life Sentence set in a jail the place innmates are remade to match their crimes. The latter is out now on Steam.
To know extra about the perfect horror video games launched over the past 12 months or so, try the winners of the 2024 Horror Sport Awards, the place Silent Hill 2 Remake took house the highest Sport of the Yr prize, in addition to Greatest Survival Horror and Greatest Soundtrack. It additionally awarded James Sunderland mocap and voice actor, Luke Roberts, Greatest Efficiency within the third annual horror recreation showcase.
Greatest Indie Developer went to Chilla’s Artwork, Greatest Multiplayer went to the sensible Deadly Firm, and the Chinese language Room’s Nonetheless Wakes the Deep took house Greatest Indie Horror, in addition to Greatest Technical Achievement. Improper Organ’s stellar – if disturbing – Mouthwashing received Greatest Narrative and Participant’s Selection.
