Thunderful Video games has revealed a brand new sport coming to Change and different consoles this yr — Paper Reduce Mansion. Coming from UK-based House Lizard Studio, the sport is described as a roguelite horror and sees you navigate your method by a cardboard mansion as police detective Toby, fixing escape room-style puzzles and scaling the constructing ground by ground, run by procedurally-generated run.

The developer says that the sport “attracts inspiration from the traditional 80s and 90s works of Tim Burton and Jim Henson”, and from the trailer above it appears just a little like Double Nice got the keys to a Paper Mario X Luigi’s Mansion mash up… which truly appears like a really wonderful thought now we have typed it out.

Along with procedural era, the press launch additionally mentions a “dimension-hopping mechanic” and “musical story interludes”, so there appears to be no scarcity of concepts happening right here to accompany the handmade cardboard aesthetic right here, which is seemingly achieved by every texture being hand-drawn, scanned and added to the 3D mannequin.

This is some extra data on Paper Reduce Mansion’s premise, plus some screenshots to accompany the gameplay trailer above:

In Paper Reduce Mansion you play as Toby, a police detective who awakens on the street resulting in the eponymous outdated mansion. You’ll put these detective expertise to the check as you search to unravel the story behind this weird place, with every run supplying you with the chance to gather one other piece of proof to be tacked on the Proof Board. The intriguing forged of characters you’ll meet as you discover might assist or hinder you: some will provide quests that may earn you useful rewards, some will attempt to cover and a few are out to get you.

The sport has solely a ‘2022’ launch date hooked up in the intervening time, though given the spooky nature of the sport, it would not take a detective to divine the time of yr they may be aiming for with this one.

Tell us beneath should you’re intrigued to unfold this one at any time when it arrives on Change.