Independent Destructoid jewels – edition 8: In this despairing maze, only the monster hears how you shout

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You don’t sleep in the obscure, you can only see two meters in front of you. Narrow bending corridors lead to no exit. You quickly realize that you are in the maze, but there is no indication of how you got here. The project looks like a man created, but it houses impossible things. Did you fall into the facilities or were you placed here as part of the experiment? Does it matter at all? Escape seems to be a distant dream, but you are not the only lost soul wandering around this nightmare.

The walls seem so scream, the edges are approaching you, wanting to absorb every breath of your breath. In front of you set balls, little hopes for freedom, to collect them seems to do something in this world. Like a twisted game PAC-ManYour time in this hellish hole will be endless, because the hunt is turned on and your life is threatened. The reaction of your body flight is mandatory, because something is at you to run to you, and rolling the ball in the corner will not aid. The tools are at your disposal, but the horror you face, plays your own mental games. How long will you survive?

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This is StealsThe independent game of horror that creates to the maze PAC-Man Feel like a walk in the park. From the brilliant independent developer, Zeekers, creator Lethal CompanyIN Steals This experience causing a panic that will keep you on the brink of a seat and never let go. Dark, pixel aesthetics in combination with eternal fear of the unknown creates a terrifying atmosphere, because it is impossible to identify or process what is after you. His concept is elementary: collect the balls and survive. But you can never trust that where you run is free from terror.

Which is so effective Steals Compared to most horror movies, the monsters are stealing you. It’s like getting the end Metal Gear Solidsnake or The last of us Part IIEllie. You are hunting and you can not do much. Yes, the premise is always the same, but the threat adapts as you progress. Instead of getting used to the environment and the horrors that live in it, Regulala is thrown out of the window with each mode in which you bravely enter. You have no choice, as always run, with a few moments to stop and breathe. Each mode is relentless and invigorating experience, which is a unique challenge.

The mode during the day steals

One sec Dark scam uses a similar formula to ensure its terror, Steals He raises the horror because you can never get tired or get used to the repeated game loop. Achieved in five available game modes, which are an intensive challenge with up-to-date rules and monsters, Steals Tips for their names: classic shutter mode, hide and search, live rooms and phantom. Instead of sticking to strict patrol patterns, the unpredictability of the entities resembles creations from Puppet Combo Strangers: insulationSKSenomorf. Their design is a breeze of fresh air (although in the subsidy most of the time) Steals“Monstrosities are clever in their approach and an irregular design. There is no second chance. After catching, that’s all, game.

Each mode seems to be a monster’s fun, a victim that should be amused and entertained. Like playing with food, you have meat escaping from the plate, not realizing that the entire maze is a monster table. There is no slow burns, no tension. However, fear is constantly because you know you are prosecuted. Monster will jump at you at any time, so you are constantly expecting inevitable. It is like expecting that this jump on a blow, the mountain queue will fall, but it will not arrive until your happiness ends. Like holding your breath or covering your eyes as a film character, carefully reaching for the door, your time Steals It will let you hang with fear.

There are not many horror games that make me panic, anxiety or caution to play. Already Steals He marks all fields as a truly terrifying horror game, which manages so much when working with such a small one. This is an impressive independent horror that shines bright like balls in the maze, recall to look at the time when most games recycled and use nostalgia for sale.

Steals is available on Couple. Will you become another imprisoned soul counting the balls to a protected place?

"Here and Come" in a red text, plastered on the screen when he steals the maze becomes red
Ready or not. Photo through Zekers

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