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Again I find myself exploring the radioactive nightmare that is Chernobyl, but this time I’m exploring the fictional S.W.A.N. Institute in this psychological horror S.W.A.N. Chernobyl Unexplored. I want to give a thank you to Volframe and Art Games Studio S.A. for the review opportunity! S.W.A.N. Chernobyl Unexplored takes players back to the exclusion zone 9 months after the nuclear meltdown and evacuations after signs of life were detected at the S.W.A.N. (Syndromes Without A Name) Institute. Players are part of a rescue team sent in but soon after arriving, all members of the team are separated and we are forced to explore the institute and all its puzzles and nightmarish creatures alone. Onto the game itself! This is a first-person puzzle exploring game and right away if you’re wondering, yeah it’s, unfortunately, following the same formula of other first-person psychological horrors where the scenery changes when you turn corners, open doors that lead nowhere, and when you turn around
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Things suck on this planet, could it be worse anywhere else? Well, Thunderful has shown that the grass is not always greener on other worlds in their sci-fi exploration game The Gunk. The Gunk takes players to an unknown world where they play as Rani, voiced by Fiona Nova (Rooster Teeth), who along with Becks, voiced by Abigail Turner (Remothered: Broken Porcelain) landed on a strange planet where they hope to find resources that could make them rich but instead discover a planet full of Gunk, a festering growth that’s slowly killing the planet and hides secrets to an ancient civilization. Onto the game itself, the controls for The Gunk are pretty straightforward and thankfully minimal and respond well especially during combat. When it comes to interacting with the Gunk itself it’s very satisfying using your power glove to suck it up, seriously it’s unusually satisfying! The sound design is pretty good, the soundtrack is OK but some of the
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Ebb Software has shared with anxious fans some great news that after a long wait their first-person horror game Scorn will be coming in 2022! Scorn is an atmospheric horror adventure set in a twisted biomechanical world reminiscent of the works of H.R. Giger. Along with the news of the release comes news about Ebb’s Kickstarter campaign where supporters are encouraged to continue donating as they will be treated to behind the scene content such as works in progress, and a more technical look at the work going into Scorn. Ljubomir Peklar, CEO of Ebb Software had this to say about Scorn: We’re really pleased to be able to share more news on the game and its release date. Scorn has been a real work of passion for the entire studio. The atmosphere, the journey, and the experience, we want every moment in Scorn to elicit an emotional response and feeling. It is our hope that Scorn stays with players
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A The Game Awards both Asobo Studio and Focus Home Entertainment presented the gameplay reveal trailer for the sequel to their critically acclaimed hit A Plague Tale: Innocence. In A Plague Tale: Requiem the story of Amicia and Hugo continues after leaving their home country France in the middle of the plague outbreak as well as war. Now heading south to vibrant cities, the siblings again face supernatural forces twisting the landscape, the horrors they thought they left behind them still ever-present. In the desperate struggle for survival and wanting to save those they love, the siblings will strike from the shadows unleashing hell with crafted weaponry and supernatural powers in the continuation of a heart-rendering tale of sibling love and dependency in a world gripped in hellish madness. A Plague Tale: Requiem is set to arrive in 2022 for Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, PC, and on the cloud for Nintendo Switch.
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One O One Games and META Publishing are pleased to announce the upcoming psychological thriller with a horror twist Aftermath. Players will be plunged into a fragmented world that we once called home where they’ll be stalked by its new inhabitants designed by Italian visual arts master Alessandro Bavari who has worked on Alien: Covenant and Susperia. In Aftermath, players will take on the role of Charlie Gray an astronaut who returned from space to find it in a fragmented nightmare where she only has two objectives, survive and find her daughter. Aftermath will be a gut-wrenching narrative-driven game where players will have to craft using mundane everyday items and fight enemies all the while facing Charlie’s demons as she navigates what’s left of the city she called home. Aftermath will be coming in 2022 for Xbox Series X/S, Playstation 4 and 5, and PC.
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Cold Iron Studios and Focus Entertainment‘s co-op survival shooter set in the “Alien” universe, Aliens: Fireteam Elite will be releasing its second season full of free new content to players this month full of new weapons, weapon attachments, and cosmetics. Along with the new items comes a new game mode that will challenge players. The new game mode titled Point Defense will challenge players to protect, repair, and hold three strategic points while fighting off waves of Xenomorphs. Along with the new game mode and weapons/attachments will come new challenge cards, and lifetime stats. Coinciding with the release of Season 2, the second Endeavor Pass DLC Pack (the Nostromo Salvage Pack) will also be available. This pack includes over 20 exclusive items, including two Nostromo-themed class kit skin designs, eight weapon colors, four decals, four head accessories, four emotes, and more! Aliens: Fireteam Elite season 2 will drop on December 14th for PC, PlayStation 4 and 5, and Xbox One
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Frogwares is no stranger to the genre of making mystery thrillers and making gamers solve crimes as the famed fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, but now comes a new twist to the genre where players play as the popular detective BEFORE he became famous in Sherlock Holmes Chapter One. Players take on the young detective as he visits a Mediterranian island full of corruption, lack of justice and morality, and plenty of crimes to solve as he goes to solve the biggest mystery in his young life, his mother’s death with the help of his imaginary friend John. A big thank you to Frogwares for the opportunity to review this title! The controls for the game may be a bit tricky at first but as you start off and get used to it, they’re not so bad, and you can always refer to the game’s instructions for them as well as other helpful hints at any time. This is very helpful
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When it comes to horror games one always stood out to me as being truly scary and actually invoked nightmares for me in the past, and that’s Fatal Frame. I was super disappointed that after the game’s third installment that they stopped releasing it in the US, but when I heard about the series fifth installment being re-released for consols I said “You son of a bitch, I’m in!”. Let’s see if the series is still had its scares or if it’s lost it, lets check out Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water. First a big thank you to Koei Tecmo for the reviewing opportunity! Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water takes place on Hikami Mountain that is a popular location for people to commit suicide much like the real-life suicide forest of Japan. The game follows three playable characters, Yuri a young woman with a developing sixth sense, Ren an author with a connection to the events on the
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Scythe and Tiny Build wants to make the horrors of working in fast food more terrifying in their upcoming first-person horror Happy’s Humble Burger Farm where players will work their shift in a food cooking simulator that combines horror elements as they must keep the customers happy or else face the wrath of the restaurant’s mascot Happy. Along with working your shift, players will encounter paranormal events that can affect their minds, as well as their work performance. Along with working their shift, players can explore the city that the restaurant is in to unlock the secrets about the not-so-happy food chain, as well as the player’s own mysterious story by collecting items found in the environment. Happy’s Humble Burger Farm will be serving up the horror on December 3rd for PC, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series X/S, with Nintendo Switch joining in the scares in 2022.
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Focus Home Entertainment and Asobo Studio have announced that their award-winning horror game centered around the Black Death, A Plague Tale: Innocence is out now physically for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S! The newly enhanced version of the game is optimized for next-gen consoles with 4k UHD graphics, better sound, faster loading times, and more! Exclusive box art copies of the game are available at the Focus Home Store, also exclusively on the store are collector’s pins featuring a Rat, Lord Nicholas’s mask, The De Rune family crest, and the columbine flower that symbolizes sadness and troubles of the soul. A Plague Tale: Innocence follows Amica De Rune and her brother Hugo as they try to escape the inquisition during the black death where hoards of supernatural rats run rampant devouring everything in their path. The siblings must solve puzzles, use stealth, and rely on each other to survive and uncover why the inquisition wants Hugo.
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Again I find myself exploring the radioactive nightmare that is Chernobyl, but this time I’m exploring the fictional S.W.A.N. Institute in this psychological horror S.W.A.N. Chernobyl Unexplored. I want to give a thank you to Volframe and Art Games Studio S.A. for the review opportunity! S.W.A.N. Chernobyl Unexplored takes players back to the exclusion zone 9 months after the nuclear meltdown and evacuations after signs of life were detected at the S.W.A.N. (Syndromes Without A Name) Institute. Players are part of a rescue team sent in but soon after arriving, all members of the team are separated and we are forced to explore the institute and all its puzzles and nightmarish creatures alone. Onto the game itself! This is a first-person puzzle exploring game and right away if you’re wondering, yeah it’s, unfortunately, following the same formula of other first-person psychological horrors where the scenery changes when you turn corners, open doors that lead nowhere, and when you turn around
Continue reading →
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Things suck on this planet, could it be worse anywhere else? Well, Thunderful has shown that the grass is not always greener on other worlds in their sci-fi exploration game The Gunk. The Gunk takes players to an unknown world where they play as Rani, voiced by Fiona Nova (Rooster Teeth), who along with Becks, voiced by Abigail Turner (Remothered: Broken Porcelain) landed on a strange planet where they hope to find resources that could make them rich but instead discover a planet full of Gunk, a festering growth that’s slowly killing the planet and hides secrets to an ancient civilization. Onto the game itself, the controls for The Gunk are pretty straightforward and thankfully minimal and respond well especially during combat. When it comes to interacting with the Gunk itself it’s very satisfying using your power glove to suck it up, seriously it’s unusually satisfying! The sound design is pretty good, the soundtrack is OK but some of the
Continue reading →
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Ebb Software has shared with anxious fans some great news that after a long wait their first-person horror game Scorn will be coming in 2022! Scorn is an atmospheric horror adventure set in a twisted biomechanical world reminiscent of the works of H.R. Giger. Along with the news of the release comes news about Ebb’s Kickstarter campaign where supporters are encouraged to continue donating as they will be treated to behind the scene content such as works in progress, and a more technical look at the work going into Scorn. Ljubomir Peklar, CEO of Ebb Software had this to say about Scorn: We’re really pleased to be able to share more news on the game and its release date. Scorn has been a real work of passion for the entire studio. The atmosphere, the journey, and the experience, we want every moment in Scorn to elicit an emotional response and feeling. It is our hope that Scorn stays with players
Continue reading →
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A The Game Awards both Asobo Studio and Focus Home Entertainment presented the gameplay reveal trailer for the sequel to their critically acclaimed hit A Plague Tale: Innocence. In A Plague Tale: Requiem the story of Amicia and Hugo continues after leaving their home country France in the middle of the plague outbreak as well as war. Now heading south to vibrant cities, the siblings again face supernatural forces twisting the landscape, the horrors they thought they left behind them still ever-present. In the desperate struggle for survival and wanting to save those they love, the siblings will strike from the shadows unleashing hell with crafted weaponry and supernatural powers in the continuation of a heart-rendering tale of sibling love and dependency in a world gripped in hellish madness. A Plague Tale: Requiem is set to arrive in 2022 for Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, PC, and on the cloud for Nintendo Switch.
Continue reading →
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One O One Games and META Publishing are pleased to announce the upcoming psychological thriller with a horror twist Aftermath. Players will be plunged into a fragmented world that we once called home where they’ll be stalked by its new inhabitants designed by Italian visual arts master Alessandro Bavari who has worked on Alien: Covenant and Susperia. In Aftermath, players will take on the role of Charlie Gray an astronaut who returned from space to find it in a fragmented nightmare where she only has two objectives, survive and find her daughter. Aftermath will be a gut-wrenching narrative-driven game where players will have to craft using mundane everyday items and fight enemies all the while facing Charlie’s demons as she navigates what’s left of the city she called home. Aftermath will be coming in 2022 for Xbox Series X/S, Playstation 4 and 5, and PC.
Continue reading →
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Cold Iron Studios and Focus Entertainment‘s co-op survival shooter set in the “Alien” universe, Aliens: Fireteam Elite will be releasing its second season full of free new content to players this month full of new weapons, weapon attachments, and cosmetics. Along with the new items comes a new game mode that will challenge players. The new game mode titled Point Defense will challenge players to protect, repair, and hold three strategic points while fighting off waves of Xenomorphs. Along with the new game mode and weapons/attachments will come new challenge cards, and lifetime stats. Coinciding with the release of Season 2, the second Endeavor Pass DLC Pack (the Nostromo Salvage Pack) will also be available. This pack includes over 20 exclusive items, including two Nostromo-themed class kit skin designs, eight weapon colors, four decals, four head accessories, four emotes, and more! Aliens: Fireteam Elite season 2 will drop on December 14th for PC, PlayStation 4 and 5, and Xbox One
Continue reading →
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Frogwares is no stranger to the genre of making mystery thrillers and making gamers solve crimes as the famed fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, but now comes a new twist to the genre where players play as the popular detective BEFORE he became famous in Sherlock Holmes Chapter One. Players take on the young detective as he visits a Mediterranian island full of corruption, lack of justice and morality, and plenty of crimes to solve as he goes to solve the biggest mystery in his young life, his mother’s death with the help of his imaginary friend John. A big thank you to Frogwares for the opportunity to review this title! The controls for the game may be a bit tricky at first but as you start off and get used to it, they’re not so bad, and you can always refer to the game’s instructions for them as well as other helpful hints at any time. This is very helpful
Continue reading →
GamingParanormalProductReviews
When it comes to horror games one always stood out to me as being truly scary and actually invoked nightmares for me in the past, and that’s Fatal Frame. I was super disappointed that after the game’s third installment that they stopped releasing it in the US, but when I heard about the series fifth installment being re-released for consols I said “You son of a bitch, I’m in!”. Let’s see if the series is still had its scares or if it’s lost it, lets check out Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water. First a big thank you to Koei Tecmo for the reviewing opportunity! Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water takes place on Hikami Mountain that is a popular location for people to commit suicide much like the real-life suicide forest of Japan. The game follows three playable characters, Yuri a young woman with a developing sixth sense, Ren an author with a connection to the events on the
Continue reading →
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Scythe and Tiny Build wants to make the horrors of working in fast food more terrifying in their upcoming first-person horror Happy’s Humble Burger Farm where players will work their shift in a food cooking simulator that combines horror elements as they must keep the customers happy or else face the wrath of the restaurant’s mascot Happy. Along with working your shift, players will encounter paranormal events that can affect their minds, as well as their work performance. Along with working their shift, players can explore the city that the restaurant is in to unlock the secrets about the not-so-happy food chain, as well as the player’s own mysterious story by collecting items found in the environment. Happy’s Humble Burger Farm will be serving up the horror on December 3rd for PC, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series X/S, with Nintendo Switch joining in the scares in 2022.
Continue reading →
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Focus Home Entertainment and Asobo Studio have announced that their award-winning horror game centered around the Black Death, A Plague Tale: Innocence is out now physically for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S! The newly enhanced version of the game is optimized for next-gen consoles with 4k UHD graphics, better sound, faster loading times, and more! Exclusive box art copies of the game are available at the Focus Home Store, also exclusively on the store are collector’s pins featuring a Rat, Lord Nicholas’s mask, The De Rune family crest, and the columbine flower that symbolizes sadness and troubles of the soul. A Plague Tale: Innocence follows Amica De Rune and her brother Hugo as they try to escape the inquisition during the black death where hoards of supernatural rats run rampant devouring everything in their path. The siblings must solve puzzles, use stealth, and rely on each other to survive and uncover why the inquisition wants Hugo.
Continue reading →
