REPOSE makes each step via its gloomy, monster-filled halls rely as you seek for treasured oxygen tanks. However does your loss of life matter?
You get up to see somebody getting torn aside by tentacles proper in entrance of you. Pretty begin to the day, as the next move is instantly previous no matter simply ripped your fellow spacefaring buddy to items. Whereas it doesn’t kill you subsequent, you doubtless received’t survive lengthy given the unusual gun-toting (and tentacle-sporting) people in area fits meandering the ability as effectively. Regardless of taking a shotgun blast to the face, although, you simply get up in a restaurant to a lady telling you that you just’ve obtained a enjoyable job to do: amassing oxygen tanks. Hopefully that dream didn’t scare you too badly.
You’ll discover that you’ve got a particularly restricted quantity of power to hold out your search as you comb via the ruined futuristic panorama. Each motion you’re taking (in addition to spinning in place to get your bearings) prices a unit of power, and as soon as these are gone, you’re useless on the spot. You’ll be able to recuperate your power in the event you discover a mattress and sleep, however you’ll must hope you find one whilst you search. Which, given the maze-like environments and the creatures roaming round seeking to kill you, doesn’t occur typically. Nonetheless, regardless of the frequency you meet your demise, you at all times get up in mattress once more with all of the doorways you beforehand opened nonetheless being unlocked.
REPOSE is an eerie exploration of an unsettling 1-bit future crammed with harmful beasts and restricted technique of avoiding them with out dying of exhaustion. Nonetheless, its deeper questions of the that means of your deaths hold pushing you ahead, utilizing your curiosity to tug you ever-deeper into this place regardless of what number of bullets are rolling round that head of yours ultimately.
REPOSE is out there now on itch.io and Steam.
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