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23.01.2024 - 22:23 / eurogamer.net / Sam Barlow / Matt Wales / Ios
Sam Barlow — the developer behind acclaimed investigative FMV adventures Immortality, Telling Lies, and Her Story — has announced he's working on two new horror titles, including a third-person survival horror said to be for old school Barlow fans «that played Silent Hill: Shattered Memories back in the day.»
Listings for Barlow's next two projects, to be developed at his Half-Mermaid studio, initially surfaced on Steam. However, as was the case with Immortality's first tease, both pages are heavily redacted, only offering up snatches of legible text and a couple of woozy mood videos.
First, there's Project C, teased with some biblical verse from Corinthians: «For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.» Between the redacted words that follow, we can see it'll be a «new cinematic» something promising something for the «first time ever» in a game. «Gifted with the… kaleidoscopic… future,» reads the remaining visible description, so there you go.
To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings Immortality, Barlow acclaimed Hollywood horror, arrives on PS5 today.Watch on YouTubeAs for Project D, this «survival horror» gives us the words «1983», «nurse», «in», «Be careful», and «nightmare». And if that's not enough to tantalise, we also get, «Something bad… Some doors… Some doors… home?». Beyond that, there's a smattering of abstract imagery included with both games — and could the recurring eye motif perhaps hint at a connection between the two?
Thankfully, Barlow didn't just leave it at that. Shortly after Project C and D made their enigmatic Steam debut, he spoke to Kinda Funny Games, revealing a little more about each one. According to Barlow, Project C (as transcribed by VGC) is «in the tradition of Immortality, building on some of that tech but going in a cool direction». It's a sci-fi horror with a «very cool premise», and features what might be «the chunkiest mechanic we've come up with within this kind of non-linear space, it's a cool little puzzle box».
More enigmatic imagery, this time for Barlow's Project D. | Image credit: Sam Barlow/Half-MermaidProject D, meanwhile, is «for my old school fans that played Silent Hill: Shattered Memories back in the day». It's described as a third-person survival horror game, «but like, take that and then imagine what happens if the Immortality team fuses with a third-person survival horror game.» Shattered Memories, if you're unfamiliar, released in 2009, reimagining the original Silent Hill in a big way; it was a bit of an underappreciated gem and would be lead designer Barlow's final release at developer Climax Studios before going solo
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I wasn't as sold on Half Mermaid's Immortality as the internet at large, but I'll give Sam Barlow as much rope for his FMV games as anyone else. He recently Xeeted about the studio's upcoming projects C and D, described as "next level FMV, hold onto your seats", and "reinventing 3rd person horror again", respectively. The games now have heavily redacted Steam pages, and Barlow revealed a few more details on Kinda Funny Games (helpfully transcribed a bit by VGC if you can't be arsed watching).
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