‘RUMOUR’ Strikes Objects Between Horror Worlds to Resolve Puzzles

RUMOUR is a horror recreation filled with puzzles the place it is advisable to transfer objects from one world into one other to save lots of your brother.

You hear some far-fetched tales about two worlds colliding at this college, inflicting some kind of drama, so that you and your brother break in. After playing around, you each find yourself discovering a lens which appears to make objects inside it change worlds. Your brother finally ends up going into this alternate dimension, so that you now must discover the college, discover out extra about this lens, and hopefully save your brother from no matter monsters are in that world.

This puzzle recreation has loads of tense horror components to it as you’re employed on fixing issues. From moments the place you out of the blue notice that the mannequins transfer within the artwork division to exploring the strangely-abandoned planetarium, issues get creepy right here in a rush. You do shortly discover a weapon – a nail gun – however ammo is restricted. Typically bigger monsters seem and assault you, however usually you’ll be able to mow them down along with your weapon earlier than they end you off.

Once you’re not capturing monsters and fixing puzzles associated to transferring objects between worlds, there are moments when you’ll be able to observe the notes which can be scattered round, giving context to what’s going on and what the opposite world may be like. Most significantly, you’ll be utilizing that lens you discovered to see issues that don’t at the moment exist in your world, bringing them to you to assist your self out. The entire world hides many secrets and techniques that may allow you to with its puzzles. Simply strive to not get eaten whereas paying shut consideration to your lens.

Once I performed the demo of RUMOUR at BCN Recreation Fest, I discovered the puzzles to be so attention-grabbing. Simply whenever you really feel such as you perceive them, you discover that they really are barely extra sophisticated you then assume. It’s attention-grabbing, fascinating, and there are loads of twists and turns right here and there. I discovered your entire factor to really feel tense, partially due to the unknown creatures and partially due to the lighting throughout the recreation. It’s moody, creepy, and one thing that feels fairly distinctive.

RUMOUR is at the moment in growth, however within the meantime you’ll be able to add it to your Steam Wishlist.

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Jupiter Hadley

Jupiter is a prolific indie recreation journalist, writing for Metro UK, Massive Boss Battle, AlphaBetaGamer, and lots of extra, all with a concentrate on smaller indie gems. She covers hundreds of recreation jams and indie video games on her YouTube channel, letting each recreation have a second within the highlight. She runs indiegamejams.com, a calendar of the entire recreation jams occurring on the planet, judges many jams and occasions.