A couple of weeks ago, I wrote with some appreciation of Hitchiker - First Ride, the initial chapter of a game about catching lifts across an uncanny America with a series of oddball strangers. They tell you their stories, and as, as they do, you become embroiled in a wider mystery - and the landscape shifts and drifts into weirdness too. It pulls from Lynch…
Hitchhiker - First Ride
3 years ago
You're already in the car when you spot the first sign that something might be wrong. A matchbook hidden in the armrest of the passenger seat; someone has written 'HELP' on it. Oh no.Hitchhiker doesn't look like a horror game, at least not in the ghoulish and grotesque sense. I don't think it's about serial killers collecting victims along backroads. Instead, it looks like a…