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First person psychological horror adventure Layers Of Fear 2 is out now. Sequel to the well-liked (if a little formulaic) Layers Of Fear by the amusingly named Bloober Team, this one puts you in the shoes/mind of a tormented actor. In this inner world (all of which is a stage), you're attempting to deliver the performance of a lifetime while harangued by personal demons, this…
Feature: Dummy horror
There’s something about mannequins that makes them such prime fodder for horror games. The dead-eyed stare sans pupils, the unnaturally rigid poses and angular elbows, and the perverse mimicry of human behaviour hurls them right into the trough of the uncanny valley. Like many horror staples, these are strategically placed to unnerve players and elicit a quick scare, with a plethora of games placing them…
I'd missed that 2016's first-person spooker Layers Of Fear was getting a sequel but: oh, it is. No, not Observer, the ace cyberspooky game that developers Bloober Team made next, an actual sequel with a number and everything. Layers Of Fear 2 is its name, and wandering a spooky boat telling the tale of a suffering actor is its game. They've even got a proper…
That Jason Voorhees fellow is a rather intimidating chap, I'll give you that much, but you know what's scarier? Lawyers. By all accounts, Friday the 13th: The Game was surprisingly fun when played with the right group, with room to grow as the developers released more maps, content and features. They'd been doing well up til' now, even adding bots to play against late last…
Artificial intelligence is a challenge enough for game developers, but I can only imagine that the latest patch for the Friday The 13th game brought a raft of new and interesting problems to developers Illfonic, as they've had to simulate artificial stupidity. As of this week, less sociable murderers can experience the game from Jason's perspective offline, with the camp-grounds populated by a swarm of up to seven…
Friday the 13th gives out free clobber in apology for launch woes
When Friday the 13th: The Game [official site] hacked through our door in May, our Adam declared the 1v7 multiplayer game "a smashing slasher sim." But unexpected horrors lay within. The servers promptly fell over at launch, like that archetypal awful teen who stumbles on a root then lies there screaming for twenty seconds while a fella with a mask and a machete lumbers towards…
The horror! Friday the 13th plagued by server issues, gradually improving
Friday the 13th [official site], the brutal 1v7 slasher sim, has got off to a bumpy start. As soon as developers Gun Media and IllFonic let players loose with masked maniac Jason Voorhees earlier this week, the game's servers started crashing. When it works it's a tense multiplayer romp, says Adam, but many players are currently unable to get their foot in the creaky cabin…
Feature: Slash and burn
Friday the 13th [official site] is occasionally tense and often hilarious in the way that long-running horror franchises tend to be. As Jason, your objective is to kill every player-controlled counsellor, and as a counsellor you're trying to escape, call the cops, or simply survive until the end of the round. I've only played for a few hours but I'm already hooked. There are frustrating…
1v7 horrorshow Friday the 13th: The Game [official site] will launch on May 26th, developers IllFonic announced over the weekend. I'm not saying it's illegal for them to not wait until Friday the 13th of October but it is immoral and we should have laws against this. IllFonic have turned the slasher movies into an objective-oriented slashfest where a team of teens at summer camp…
Good horror news/bad(?) horror news. Let's go good first: upcoming multiplayer slasherfest Friday the 13th: The Game [official site] will be getting a singleplayer side after launch and AI bots too, developers IllFonic and publishers Gun Media have announced. Bad(?) news: it's delayed from its planned autumn launch into 2017. That sounds good considering that its rival-to-be Dead by Daylight is also getting its own…
The latest video for Friday The 13th: The Game [official site] is a montage of gruesome kills. You've got fireplace roasting, knife down the throat, limb-lopping bleed-outs, chopping and hacking, eye-popping, skull-crushing (multiple), pitchfork-puncturing (with prolonged eye contact up until the moment of death) and a pickaxe coming down hard on a plaid shirt. That's not all and you can watch the whole thing below…
A 1v7 multiplayer game with a near-supernatural killer hunting down hapless teenagers at a summer camp sounds grand to me. Third-person murderfest Slasher Vol 1: Summer Camp was announced earlier this year, but has since picked up a license to the slasher movies it's riffing off and is simply Friday the 13th: The Game [official site]. I'm not bothered about the license - Braindead and…
Breach And Clear: DEADline is another zombie game but it's [edit: possibly not] a tactical turn-based zombie game so I'm willing to give it a chance. If you put a turn-based game about OXO in front of me, it'd probably occupy me for at least a couple of hours. As already mentioned, this is a beefed up version of an iOS release and a new…
A pleasingly self-descriptive name, Breach & Clear. It's a turn-based tactical game about squads breaching and clearing. Can you guess what's new in sequel Breach & Clear: Deadline? Tricky, I know. As a hint, I'll tell you that it's officially stylised DEADline. Can you guess what it is yet? Zombies! Because they're DEAD, do you see? Hold your frothing for one moment: is the top-down…
