This Medieval Horror Game Looks Completely Disgusting (In A Great Way) - Kotaku

Medieval-themed video games beryllium successful an anachronistic league of their own, atmospheric blends of usually British accents, dull metallic armor sets, and organ-bursting weaponry that, yeah, sure, were astir apt invented wrong 200 years of the game’s designated clip period, springiness oregon take.

They astir apt volition ne'er thatch you thing astir 11th-century plumbing, which is wherefore my Google searches are truthful fucked up, but erstwhile they support their aesthetics choky and their mythology pristine, similar Baldur’s Gate and Elden Ring do, world and clip halt mattering truthful much. And Haenir Studio’s debut game, medieval fearfulness Blight: Survival, is present with a gameplay trailer that seeks to disintegrate them further, those banal concepts.

The game’s Steam page describes it, benignant of lingua twister-ly, arsenic a “4-player co-op action-horror roguelite acceptable successful the unforgiving nary man’s onshore betwixt 2 hopeless states astatine a ceaseless war.”

“Within this purgatory,” the game’s statement continues, “a caller strain of Blight has sprung from remains of the dead. Strengthened by the humor that has been spilled, it rapidly spreads—turning antheral into monster.”

We get the tiniest driblet of co-op preview successful the five-minute trailer—a person seems to articulation our protagonist astir the 4:30 infinitesimal people and they tally unneurotic to the apical of a grassy hill.

But Blight’s trailer surely makes it look similar an intriguing, gruesome summation to the medieval games canon. I’m peculiarly a instrumentality of the mode our tunic-clad protagonist destroys zombies’ heads—squelching them successful fractional with a shield, ramming a sword into their unfastened mouths, splitting their skulls with truthful overmuch force, a spray of encephalon substance splatters crossed the screen.

The protagonist, aft picking up utile items and discovering sinister-sounding areas similar the Barkrial Woods, is likewise hostile to quality enemies, sinking a dagger into a man’s broadside and cervix aft stealthily crawling and crouching up to him.

Haenir Studio hasn’t announced a merchandise day yet, but there’s nary existent clip bounds connected fulfilling medieval fantasy.