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3 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…
4 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…
