Let's Try: Seethe and Scab, Hollow Head: DC, Ceilings, and Strobophagia
0It's the Indie Game Wednesday roundup for Wednesday, October 12th, 2022.
- Intro: 00:00
- Seethe and Scab: 00:02:48
- Hollow Head: Directors Cut: 00:29:11
- Ceilings: 01:04:48
- Strobophagia: 01:16:38
Seethe and Scab is a ps1-style walking simulator where you, a content creator, break into an old munitions building to do some illicit recording. Things go poorly. The game drips atmosphere and I enjoyed it, but lordy is the walk speed slow.
Hollow Head: Directors Cut is another ps1-style where upon dumping your trash down the chute, you hear someone yelling for help. You decide to tell the security desk guy about it, and things get progressively weirder from there. I don't want to spoil anything, so I'll just say that the game was effective at getting my uncomfortable, as well as scaring me. I think I got the good ending?
Ceilings is a twine game about an emergency, and whether you're going to follow the issued instructions or not. I actually really enjoyed it, but I wish there was more to it. I know I didn't find all the endings, but it's a bite-sized game no matter how you cut it. I love the Twine engine as a horror story tool, and I want to see more of it.
Strobophagia is... it's a trip, y'all. You head off to a rave in the forest where everyone wears weird costumes, and you get special wifi-only phones that you use to navigate the various areas of the rave. Also the organizers are trying to revive an ancient power? It's a very strange game, but overall pretty enjoyable! I loved the look of it, the puzzles were simple, and the game goes out of its way to explain itself at the end, so at least there's that. The "combat" mechanic, if you can call it that, could use a lot of work though. There's not really much of an AI to the "enemies" which sort of detracts from the whole experience.
Seethe and Scab: https://mjm.itch.io/seethe-and-scab
Hollow Head: Directors Cut: https://rubeki.itch.io/hollow-head
Ceilings: https://gameovertures.itch.io/ceilings
Strobophagia: https://greentiledigital.itch.io/strobophagia
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