After a somewhat unique reveal between stray tweets and a playable demo on the show floor of PAX Australia 2024, New Zealand-based indie developer Cold Out Interactive is officially announcing its upcoming PC horror title Corporeal. Set against the tactile technological backdrop and suburban streets of the late 1990s, Corporeal tasks players with assembling a photo album with absolutely rancid vibes as you sift through haunted photographs to solve a bloodline-ending mystery.
Much like 2022’s Immortality, Corporeal will incorporate live-action photographs for the player to manipulate and place in the album, using these images to solve puzzles and ultimately piece together the game’s promised tragic narrative. The use of live-action photos immediately sets the game apart from its indie horror contemporaries and lends the whole thing an unsettling and grounded haunted feeling.
As you can see in the above announcement trailer, Corporeal’s tone and particular flavour of horror feel fresh in this space. The team likens the game to the deeply disturbing Aussie horror cult classic Lake Mungo and if the game has even half that amount of juice, it’ll be one worth watching, doubly so for a small team out of NZ. We had a chance to check out the game at PAX last month and came away impressed by its tone and relatively seamless interactivity.
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One part pretentious academic and one part goofy dickhead, James is often found defending strange games and frowning at the popular ones, but he's happy to play just about everything in between. An unbridled love for FromSoftware's pantheon, a keen eye for vibes first experiences, and an insistence on the Oxford comma have marked his time in the industry.
