Anthology Of The Killer threads a really delicate needle, managing to in some way be extremely humorous whereas nonetheless making you worry in your life.
BB runs a zine on spooky-goings-on in her city. Fortunately, there isn’t any scarcity of fabric the place she lives. Irrespective of how mundane a spot may sound, wherever BB goes, you’ll discover some unsettling factor value writing about afterwards. And actually, there isn’t something mundane about any of the locations she’ll go to throughout the assorted episodes of this anthology. Each location is full of surreal visuals, eye-grabbing sights, and distinctive creatures. Exploring this world is rearding sufficient by itself.
The visuals are rewarding, however in addition they create a base feeling of discomfort as you discover the world. Issues don’t sit fairly proper. Scary creatures flit about or outright seize onto you. On the identical time, outright hilarious interactions occur. The dialogue is sharp and humorous, but additionally vivid and discomforting. This recreation slips by way of scary interactions that in some way make me chuckle about my very own possible demise. Horror and humor typically go hand-in-hand, however this connection is commonly lopsided. This recreation does one thing unbelievable by all the time retaining these items in stability, creating this unusual sensation that I’m laughing to maintain myself sane whereas attempting to not die simply so I can write one thing to make hire.
Anthology of the Killer is phenomenal as a recreation to make me chuckle whereas concurrently giving me that sense of dread I take pleasure in whereas enjoying a horror recreation. I’ve simply by no means had these emotions coexist in the identical second earlier than. This mingled sensation, in addition to the unbelievable talent with the writing and visuals it took to carry me to this unusual place, make this recreation into one thing you really want to expertise a minimum of as soon as.
Anthology Of The Killer is out there now on itch.io, GameJolt, and Steam.
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