What an odd beast The Town of Light [official site] is. Per Alec's preview from Develop last month, it's Gone Home by way of Silent Hill rather than a traditional horror game. No monsters, no supernatural sub-plot and very little direct threat. A new trailer reveals that you play as Renee, an ex-inmate of Volterra, an infamous and real Italian asylum. She's returned to the decaying…
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Horror games have an asylum level: them's the rules. No, no arguing, it's statistically proven to be the only environment human beings can be scared by. Well, fun fairs and orphanages too, but the quintessential horror asylum always has aspects of those anyway. Italian-made 'psychological-thriller' The Town Of Light is set in an asylum, therefore I presumed it was a straight-up horror game - but…