If you ever wondered what wandering through Salvador Dali's head might look like, video game Tangiers just might be exactly that, exact perhaps a bit creepier.
In Tangiers, you must make your way through a surreal nightmarish landscape straight out of a Dali painting and fight creatures unlike anything you've probably seen before in a video game (one has a cassette tape for a video game: how's that for surreal?).
Game developer Andalusian games released the first trailer for Tangiers today, showing off some of this horrific world, which is "touched by the surreal and grotesque." The trailer shows off the horror stealth title and what gamers can expect once the game becomes available.
Andalusian's website has more information on the game, which mentions that you can use a variety of skills to make your way through the game's setting. You can either stalk through the shadows and stay away from the beasties or you can use strategy to overcome them. However, something that sounds even more interesting is that you can "use language as a weapon; stealing dialogue and using it to manipulate, mislead and control."
Doesn't that sound intriguing?
"You play an outsider, an interloper that doesn't belong in this world," writes Andalusion. "Your arrival has triggered events that are tearing at the fabric of reality — as you flit through an existential already off-kilter world that folds in on itself."
Even the buildings in the game's environment do not bend to any rules, changing as the player wanders through them. This is also the case for the game's characters, which explains why they look so weird and macabre in the trailer.
"Plays like Thief making out with Kentucky Route Zero, with a bit of Dear-Esther-On-Bath-Salts thrown into the mix," writes Andalusian in a press release. "Open sandbox levels, immersive sim gameplay, hide in shadows, don't get seen ..."
The trailer also features an atmospheric soundtrack, which is available to listen to or for download on BandCamp.
The beta version of Tangiers arrives on PC on November 3, with the retail version following on Steam and Itch.io on November 26.
Via VG247
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