The Zackest game there ever was
If you want to get Zack Furniss’s attention, mentioning Phantasmagoria, Silent Hill, and P.T. while having a Babadook-lookin’ homie in your game is sure bet.
SadSquare Studios is attempting to crowdfund Visage, its take on “real-life horror simulators” à la P.T. Set in a secluded town in the 1980s, you’ll be tasked with discovering why your new home has existed for centuries, and why most of the former tenants have died horribly. If SadSquare achieves what it’s hoping for, this environment will feel like such a “believably realistic house that when you stop playing, you’ll probably fear your own peaceful house.”
Players will be able to interact with the house (picking up VHS tapes and placing them in a VCR is mentioned), manage their stress, and avoid dark entities roaming about the premises. Just reading this sounds a little too good to be true, but the video has convinced me. It crept under my skin a bit, which rarely happens these days (though Rides With Strangers found a way to do it, perhaps unintentionally). Between this and Allison Road, the spirit of P.T. shall live on.
Visage is currently planned to release next January on PC, though consoles releases are listed as a possibility, should the project succed in hitting its stretch goals
Visage [Kickstarter]
