Indie low-poly horror showcase EEK3 returned this 12 months within the type of an hour-long collection of trailers for upcoming video games, hosted as all the time by a purple skeleton named Skully. Whereas the Nintendo Change brand appeared a number of instances, don’t be concerned, each sport featured is coming to PC.
This 12 months’s complement of trailers included just a few video games we have seen earlier than, like GoldenEye homage Agent 64: Spies By no means Die, in addition to Ghostlore, which is principally 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 a lot extra we hadn’t seen earlier than, lots of which are actually on my wishlist. Like Mom of Many (opens in new tab), wherein you are a mouse farmer who has to develop greens, cook dinner meals, and battle 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 unusual 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 strive proper now on the most recent Haunted PS1 Demo Disc (opens in new tab), which incorporates 18 demos in all. You may 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 staff and got down to clear up a haunted retail institution.
Of those I attempted, my favourite was Concern the Highlight (opens in new tab), a stealth-horror sport the place you are trapped in a faculty after darkish with a lamp-headed monster. Fixing puzzles whereas enjoying my flashlight over the partitions for clues was strongly paying homage to Midwich Elementary College from Silent Hill in the absolute best manner. It is due out this 12 months too.