As a part of DreadXP’s Indie Horror Showcase, Philisophic Video games has pulled again the curtain on Hellpunk, a horror sport about hitting issues with issues.

I’ve acquired a dearth of knowledge right here, however Hellpunk appears to be a sport making an attempt to nail the ever-elusive feeling of melee fight in a first-person sport. It makes use of considerably lo-fi graphics, and all of the press materials I’ve simply says it’s about angrily killing foes. The foes encompass CRT-headed dudes and different assorted weirdos. Don’t fear about creating CRT-headed orphans, nevertheless, as a result of apparently, you’re preventing “by the depths of the human thoughts.” The very indignant depths.

To be truthful, although, the brief, 22-second trailer says quite a bit. Past the trippy visuals, first-person melee is a carrot that few have even touched. 2005’s Condemned: Legal Origins is usually cited as one of many few video games to even come shut to creating it work. I’m at the moment straining to consider one other sport that did it properly following that. Doom (2016)’s glory kills come to thoughts, nevertheless it’s simply hitting a button and watching Doomguy be all vicious. That basically doesn’t rely.

So, yeah, that’s all I acquired, except for the truth that it calls itself “Homicide-punk.” We’ll have to attend and see if Hellpunk manages to attain what has been misplaced.

Hellpunk is coming to PC through Steam. Its web page is out there to wishlist, however there isn’t a goal launch window.