If there’s one thing I love doing first thing in the morning, it’s launching myself into a festively atrocious trench network, where gasmasks glare from the offal like toppled gargoyles, and sea mines dangle overhead like enormous germ cells. Here be monsters. Here be dropped diary pages. Here be a tormenting combo of “handcrafted” characters and permadeath. Here be, er, minigames.
“A grimdark machine for martyrdom, fed by flesh and devotion,” is how In Hope Voiden describes itself. In this first-person survival horror, you are 12 people in succession, each laden with baggage of one kind or another, each trying to make sense of a rusty hellmouth that marries the grot of World War 1 to the grain of PS1. It’s the work of German team Stilbruch Games. Here’s a trailer.
