Former DreadXP and Vital Reflex alum Ted Hentschke has teamed up with Jakub Bałuszek-Sobolewski to type Black Lantern Collective, a brand new writer devoted to horror video games.
Described as an “all-new indie writer leveraging the eagerness and experience for established horror savants to deliver a curated assortment of chills, thrills, and unease to the freaky plenty”, Black Lantern hit the bottom operating 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 workforce explains. “Delve right into a tower of forgotten nightmares, the place each step may very well be your final. Overcome horrors from past dying and unlock the secrets and techniques of forbidden information.”
Additionally on the best way is a first-person narrative journey “about tagging billboards and watching your own home burn down”, Youngsters of Saturn, rogue-like cube construct Lifeless Finger Cube: A Billionaire Killing Recreation whereby you tackle pole cube in opposition to 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, take a look at the winners of the 2024 Horror Recreation Awards, the place Silent Hill 2 Remake took dwelling the highest Recreation of the 12 months prize, in addition to Finest Survival Horror and Finest Soundtrack. It additionally awarded James Sunderland mocap and voice actor, Luke Roberts, Finest Efficiency within the third annual horror recreation showcase.
Finest Indie Developer went to Chilla’s Artwork, Finest Multiplayer went to the good Deadly Firm, and the Chinese language Room’s Nonetheless Wakes the Deep took dwelling Finest Indie Horror, in addition to Finest Technical Achievement. Flawed Organ’s stellar – if disturbing – Mouthwashing received Finest Narrative and Participant’s Selection.
