I do not know should you’ve heard however sport demos are again, child. Final 12 months, the indie scene of builders making spooky video games with PlayStation-era graphics put collectively a free anthology of 17 ominous oddities known as the Haunted PS1 Demo Disc. Its creators are getting back from the land of wobbling textures and big polygons with a sequel, the Haunted PS1 Demo Disc 2021, which can include 25 demos for upcoming retro video games with low-fi artwork.
As with final 12 months, it will not be an actual, bodily disc, however as an alternative a bundle of Home windows executables accessed by way of a launcher with a UI harking back to the olden instances. Amongst this 12 months’s inclusions are Agony of a Dying MMO, “a story horror sport that takes place within the last hours of a massively multiplayer on-line sport earlier than its servers shut down for good”, The Lunar Impact, a fixed-camera horror sport within the Resident Evil/Silent Hill/Alone within the Darkish type by which it’s a must to resolve puzzles to flee a mansion, and tmOD, a “Cursed love letter/demake on basic gmod and the hl2 modding scene”.
The skeleton who I assume is in control of issues is not too strict about definitions, because the FAQ explains, saying that “not each sport needs to be 3D or have the actual visible quirks of any particular {hardware}. In the same method we don’t require the video games to have a strict horror theme, as an alternative they are often atmospheric, have a slight unnerving twist and even simply really feel so of the period that we will not resist loving them and wanting them within the assortment.”
Although deliberate for launch on March 24, the Haunted PS1 Demo Disc 2021 has been held back for a day “for the sake of our builders wellbeing”.
It would embrace playable demos of those 25 video games:
- [ECHOSTASIS], by ENIGMA
- Agony of a Dying MMO, by Salem Hughes
- An Outcry, by Quinn Okay.
- Apolysis, by From Nightfall Until Daybreak
- Chasing Static, by Headware Video games
- Fiend’s Isle, by Ian Williams
- Ghastly Goodies, by Cyreides
- JANITOR BLEEDS, by Korpus
- Lorn’s Lure, by Rubeki
- Loveland, by DevHour Video games
- Mummy Sandbox, by z_bill
- Pathogen-X, by sodaraptor
- Peeb Adventures, by Johnny
- Protagoras Bleeds, by Bryce Bucher
- Risu, by Ryan Trawick
- Nonetheless Ridge, by Justen “Jaybee” Brown
- That Which Gave Chase, by Aslak Karlsen Hauglid
- The Chameleon, by Antonio Freyre
- The Drowning Machine, by Aidan Cushing
- The Heilwald Loophole, by Jan Malitschek
- The Lunar Impact, by Unfavorable Entities
- The Salt Order, by Khamelot
- tmOD, by Tobias Mihura
- Toree 3D, by SIACTRO
- 散歩 – Stroll, by Kazumi Video games