Hey guys, hope you’re all having a good Friday!
Last night me and WTG’s George played through a horror game called Phantasmal, developed by Eyemobi (because we’re a pair of wusses who won’t play it on our own in the dark like a real man would).
A brief description of this game; you start off in an abandoned mansion and a quick perusal of a nearby notebook gives the explanation that there are strange lights and high pitched noises, and being a sensible, rational human being, your character decides to explore this in the middle of the night during a thunderstorm armed with a pistol with only 20 bullets and a broom for company. Okay then.
Game play mechanics on this game are interesting. Your character slowly goes insane from looking at the enemy for too long which can result in you instantly dying to a giant flying whatever it was which materialised through a wall with so much noise I instantly quit the game in terror when I tried to play on my own previously. You can negate this by looking away from things for a while, but when you turn around they’re usually right behind you. Also, each playthrough is procedurally generated, so it’s different each time, leading to this being a completely new terror every time you venture into the mansion.
The first enemies you encounter hunt only by sound so you have to sneak everywhere, but you encounter others later which run around (hopefully you’ll enjoy the invisible laughing teleporting demon as much as I did – which is to say I jumped a foot off my chair and quit the game). This sneaking and tense manoeuvring whilst trying to balance keeping an eye on the enemy with not going giant-monster-summoning-insane adds to the tension and jump scares, and makes the atmosphere of this game an incredibly absorbing horror nightmare.
If you’re into horror, you should definitely give this one a try. I recommend it for fans of Slenderman and Amnesia.
You can find Phantasmal here.
We originally found it featured on Alpha Beta Gamer
As ever, thanks for reading, let us know what you think of the game when you’ve plucked up the courage to venture in!
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Tom
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