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10 months ago
Lakeview Cabin developer announces small-town murder simulator
You know, I always thought there was one thing Stardew Valley lacked that otherwise would make it perfect: murder. I mean, how many times can you go to the same festivals and holiday celebrations year after year with the same NPCs before you want to strangle one of them? Thankfully the newly announced Lakeview Valley will let players get away with those fleeting homicidal tendencies…
4 years ago
From Friday the 13th to Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Roope Tamminen's Lakeview Cabin Collection [official site] offers little sandbox deathworlds inspired by horror films of the '70s and '80s. They're... non-linear violent adventure games? No, I still don't know how to describe this. Each episode turns characters loose in a little horror movie setup to survive any way they can - you get to try…
Lakeview Cabin Collection is a fascinating thing, an episodic sandbox action-puzzler with oodles of items to use in many ways and ultimately only one puzzle: "How can I stop horror movie slashers from stabbing me to bits and wearing my face?" I'm very bad at it, but I do enjoy poking around, getting drunk, finding weapons, and trying to set unlikely traps before I'm brutally…
5 years ago
I really dig the idea of the Lakeview Cabin Collection [official site], an anthology where '70s and '80s horror movie become sandbox murder-adventures. Survivors in terrible situations scavenging odds and sods to create ad-hoc solutions to the problem of 'someone wants to murder you'. The first episode (confusingly titled Lakeview Cabin III) was a Friday the 13th-style romp around a lakeside camp. The second arrived…
Should I ever find myself in a horror movie-style scenario, I intend to lie on a bed pressed up close against the wall with my eyes firmly shut. Movie rules mean they can't kill me if I don't acknowledge them, so I'll simply be very stoic. That might not work so well in Lakeview Cabin Collection [official site], a slasher movie game anthology which has…
