“I’m often a bit unsure if we really made a horror game at all,” Yuri Stern tells me.
Stern is one-half of the German studio rose-engine, and the co-designer on the upcoming dark sci-fi game, Signalis.
“I’m more concerned with atmosphere, symbolism, and character than with scaring the players,” Stern said via email. “For me, the horror in Signalis comes mostly from the oppressive systems and mechanics of old-school survival horror, which allows the story to be concerned with more personal themes.”
Signalis is set in another solar system, in the distant future, under the rule of an authoritarian government. Much of its industry, including an ongoing war effort, is conducted with cloned “Replika” units: artificial humans that are built from templates and designed to be replaceable.
You play as Elster, a Replika, who’s ended up stuck on an icy moon at the edge of the system after her starship crashed.
Stern is one-half of the German studio rose-engine, and the co-designer on the upcoming dark sci-fi game, Signalis.
“I’m more concerned with atmosphere, symbolism, and character than with scaring the players,” Stern said via email. “For me, the horror in Signalis comes mostly from the oppressive systems and mechanics of old-school survival horror, which allows the story to be concerned with more personal themes.”
Signalis is set in another solar system, in the distant future, under the rule of an authoritarian government. Much of its industry, including an ongoing war effort, is conducted with cloned “Replika” units: artificial humans that are built from templates and designed to be replaceable.
You play as Elster, a Replika, who’s ended up stuck on an icy moon at the edge of the system after her starship crashed.
- 10/18/2022
- by Thomas Wilde
- bloody-disgusting.com
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