Crawl 8-bit catacombs with a glowstick in first-person horror Repose
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Summary
A new indie game called Repose has launched, and while it may look like a dystopian take on the original “Tomb Raider” and “Resident Evil” games from the 1990s, its US developer says it is “moodalicious,” offering players a bleak experience between “the allure of utter desolation and the nightmare of corporate existence.”
Repose is a monochrome dungeon crawler, in which you must explore the hideously dishevelled techno-crypts using just 50 in-game steps, before dying of exhaustion.
The game has no save system, with players instead having to rely on save codes, as well as needing to jot down notes on a pad much like in the 1990s.
Repose’s demo is available on Steam, featuring a dystopian setting, with the first location within the game called Cafe Void, while the player’s employer is simply referred to as The Company.
Made by a three-person US indie studio, Repose has launched alongside a similar game called Void Stranger, which offers a “sexier and weirder” take on the genre.
