I love liminal spaces. I usually experience a sort of warm, soft comfort from them. Probably from exploring my dad’s empty office building back when I was a kid. He and his secretary were the only employees, so there were tons of empty, poorly lit rooms and hallways.
But the longer I played this game, the more dread started to creep over me. Probably because I have a mild fear of deep waters, and you can’t see anything in these waters unless you’re standing right over them.
You’re absolutely not alone. Someone just pointed at me from the depths of a pool. Actual creeps down my back, something I haven’t felt since silent hill 2
Edit- finished it in about 3 hours. Top notch sound design, high quality visuals, interesting and unsettling levels… it’s everything you expect. Chapter 1, 2, 5 get seriously high marks from me. Someone described it as a museum game though, and yeah - kind of is. Overall held my attention, I took lots of screenshots, and it made me feel something. Good game.
A few years ago I tried to get into Unreal, but after a while it’s easy to come to the conclusion why most game studios aren’t one-man companies. Unless you’d just asset flip, or go for a pretty basic kind of game, it’s just so much work that it stops being a fun hobby and just becomes something that would turn into a full-time job, without pay lol.
Used to do modding and maps for various games back in the days, like Battlefield 1942 and Jedi Knight games, even dabbled some in 3DS Max and Cinema4D, was pretty fun creating stuff. But taking on an entire game concept is so incredibly daunting.
Gearing up for Halloween season and really enjoying the creepy vibes wherever they may crop up, including picking out some indie horror games to play. This looks great (and no jump scares are nice hehe). Thanks for the spooky content! :D
P.S. Small detail, but I like how the wall bends at the bottom in the last screenshot.
Yeah the game distorts your vision slightly, to add to the subtle anxiousness. You can fine-tune it in settings, but by default, it can make you feel a little unsteady and ungrounded.
For context the game is called […steampowered.com/…/Do_Not_Press_The_Button_To_De…](Do Not Press The Button) and a wishlist would be greatly appreciated. I’m currently working hard on it and I would say that it’s 99% done, but I like to joke that rest of the work (polishing and bug fixing) is another 99%
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