Spytihněv, the developer behind the wonderful 2023 boomer shooter HROT, has lastly unveiled his subsequent venture: Brno Transit, a gnarly-looking horror sport set in a surreal subway system. Particularly that of Brno, a serious metropolis within the southeast of Czechia which doesn’t even have a subway system in actual life, solely getting a single underground rail line between two stations in 2022.
Brno Transit positively suits into the indie pattern of mundane/workplace-oriented horror video games—5 Nights, Threshold, Iron Lung, fellow subway expertise The Exit 8, and the like. However Spytihněv’s distinctive type and wry humorousness already set Brno Transit aside in its first trailer.
You have bought this grating, pulsing, synthy industrial monitor propelling a montage of scenes from the titular subway. Some are mundane, whereas others are disquieting. Regular, if oppressive photographs of labor and life on the tracks? Checks out. A freakish goblin man thrashing about behind a ticket counter? You could have my consideration.
A nude man standing downcast in a stark communal bathe, the vibe someplace between the top of The Blair Witch Challenge and the top of the Simpsons episode Bart of Darkness? Now that is bought sport of the yr potential in my e book.
“Brno Transit is a narrative-driven psychological horror sport a couple of trainee metro driver trapped within the dampest subway east of something that issues,” reads the sport’s description on Steam. “Worker advantages embody: crisp uniform, limitless journey move, meal vouchers, an annual journey to Bulgaria—and, in case you show your self, an invite to the Bunker.”
I had an enormous, soiled guffaw after I noticed the sport’s mature content material description on the Steam web page: “Not appropriate for youth beneath the age of 30 by resolution of the committee.“
Spytihněv’s earlier sport, HROT, is certainly one of my favorites of the brand new boomer shooters—I gave it an 87% in my overview again in 2023. Its solely actual blemish to my eye was an ending that bought slightly too zany. Spytihněv balanced a pitch black, but someway whimsical humorousness with sheer terror all through HROT, and for essentially the most half, the stability was good. A straight-up horror sport strikes me as an excellent match for the developer. Brno Transit is ready to launch towards the top of this yr, and you may wishlist it now on Steam.