by theygamesIt’s called thalassophobia, the fear of deep and large bodies of water. Subnautica has it – it looks pretty, sure, and there are a lot of marvels below the ocean’s surface, but when your sensors start blinking and a Leviathan is closing in, well, that’s about as frightening as games can get. Soma, the occasionally overlooked horror classic from Amnesia’s Frictional has it, too, those awful moments when you’re wandering the sea floor in total darkness. Take that enormous sense of isolation, vulnerability, and smallness, and mix it with the stalker-killer type enemies you get in Alien Isolation and Resident Evil, and you get Dark Mass, just announced at the Future Games Show.
You are Alice, a deep-sea explorer whose ostensible mission is to salvage the wreck of a former ocean liner. But beneath the decaying hull you discover something more sinister, an old manor house that has somehow landed on the bottom of an underwater trench. At first, it seems spectacular, but you quickly realize that you’re not alone – something is in here with you. So begins Dark Mass, a horror game that is set entirely beneath the waves.
Solve puzzles, make narrative-changing decisions, and try to evade the barnacled, aquatic terror that is hunting you, helped via the radio by your brother, Reed. There are certainly influences here from Amnesia, Layers of Fear, and a bit of Silent Hill, but every single moment of Dark Mass takes place underwater, so the pressure, pun intended, remains constantly high.
There’s no release date for Dark Mass yet, but you can already wishlist it on Steam. Just head right here.
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