LIDAR.EXE explores an eerie place the place it’s far too darkish to see. It’s a must to use a scanner to look by means of your setting, however you may not like what you discover.
It’s not possible to see something on this recreation’s pitch black world. A minimum of, not with out the assistance of your Lidar scanner. This device pings the realm round it with a sign, indicating the place partitions, constructions, and creatures have been while you did the scan. It is a useful approach of with the ability to ‘see’ what’s round you, because the sign stays as factors of coloured mild on the item. As you scan a number of occasions, you’ll steadily make the world come into existence round you. It offers you some skill to get round, and the tiniest little bit of consolation in a spot the place you may’t see ANYTHING.
However one thing appears to be down right here with you. Errant indicators present one thing humanoid appears to be skulking about. You’ll ping an space and see a humanoid form that was standing there the second you hit the button. Is it nonetheless there, although? And if not, the place has it wandered off to subsequent? Probably the most your scanner can let you know is that it WAS there. So, at the same time as you convey the world into existence round you, you’re nonetheless left at nighttime, in a way. You don’t have any clue the place the creature is – solely that it exists. And that it was near you a second earlier than. At this level, all you are able to do is hold exploring, watching the aftereffects of the creature’s unusual behaviors as you progress steadily deeper into this horrifying place.
LIDAR.EXE does a improbable job of letting you understand, but additionally not know, in regards to the factor that’s stalking you. You may get hints of its presence, however you’ll by no means absolutely know what’s it’s doing. You simply get an afterimage of the place it was, creating this sense of being disconnected and helpless as you watch it steadily develop nearer.
LIDAR.EXE is out there now on itch.io.