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End of Abyss Is A Fantastic (And Hard) Addition To A New Era Of Survival Horror

End of Abyss Is A Fantastic (And Hard) Addition To A New Era Of Survival Horror https://ift.tt/925TrAF Trying to distill End of Abyss to a single sentence is difficult. I can call it a Metroid Prime-like, but it's also a survival-horror game with a sprinkle of Dead Space, but then I'd be remiss to not mention the souls-like influence too. Yes, it can be reductive to narrow a game down to its influences, but it's a testament to what makes End of Abyss interesting: its ability to execute on so many different elements so well, making it one of my most-anticipated games from 2026's Summer Game Fest. In my hands-on video impressions below, you can get a closer look at how it’s adapting all those genres and elements into its overhead perspective and twin-stick shooting controls, as well is cold and harrowing atmosphere. https://youtu.be/MuEmn32tbvg
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How A New PvP Horror Game Plans To Prevent Players From Being Jerks

How A New PvP Horror Game Plans To Prevent Players From Being Jerks https://ift.tt/ZiIyKe2

The asymmetrical horror genre has exploded in recent years. Formerly a space inhabited by Dead By Daylight (DBD) almost exclusively, it now includes several major counterparts, such as The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Killer Klowns From Outer Space, and Hunt: Showdown. Go a level deeper, and many horror-adjacent games, like Predator: Hunting Grounds and Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed, capture similar gameplay mechanics in less spooky settings. The genre is old enough now that a number of competitors have come and gone already, such as Friday The 13th and Evil Dead.

One name dedicated players may recall is Last Year: The Nightmare. Originally, the 5v1 horror game was developed around the same time as Dead By Daylight, with crowdfunding kicking off way back in 2014. In some alternate universe, it might today be DBD's biggest competitor. But a slew of unfortunate circumstances led to the game never quite establishing a solid foundation.

Launching in 2018 exclusively on Discord during the brief period in which the messaging app tried (and failed) to take on Steam as a PC gaming marketplace made community-building highly improbable. Players rejected the Steam alternative, as they tend to with seemingly all others, which, for a multiplayer game like Last Year: The Nightmare, was a death knell. In 2019, a move to reinvent the game for Steam with a new name, Last Year: Afterdark, also wasn't able to capture the attention of more than a small, albeit passionate, group of players. In 2020, the pandemic led to a prospective publishing deal collapsing at the eleventh hour, which tore up the game's content roadmap. Combined, these unfortunate missteps ultimately killed the studio, Elastic Games.

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