‘RUMOUR’ Strikes Gadgets Between Horror Worlds to Resolve Puzzles

RUMOUR is a horror recreation stuffed with puzzles the place it is advisable transfer objects from one world into one other to avoid wasting 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 gadgets 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 quite a lot of tense horror components to it as you’re employed on fixing issues. From moments the place you abruptly understand 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 proscribed. Generally bigger monsters seem and assault you, however usually you may mow them down together with your weapon earlier than they end you off.

If you’re not taking pictures monsters and fixing puzzles associated to transferring gadgets between worlds, there are moments when you may observe the notes which can be scattered round, giving context to what’s going on and what the opposite world could be like. Most significantly, you’ll be utilizing that lens you discovered to see issues that don’t presently exist in your world, bringing them to you to assist your self out. The entire world hides many secrets and techniques that may provide help 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 Sport 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 difficult then you definately suppose. It’s attention-grabbing, charming, and there are quite a lot of twists and turns right here and there. I discovered the complete 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 presently in improvement, however within the meantime you may add it to your Steam Wishlist.

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Jupiter Hadley

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