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Head beneath the waves and pull up "corpses from an oil-drenched nightmare" in the ocean-fear inducing KEROGEN

Rock Paper Shotgun·Oisin Kuhnke·20 days ago
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Image credit: Zartbitter Games I do not trust the ocean. It's too big! There's too much going on in that thing and oh how I pray and pray for the day that James Cameron stops messing around down there. Makes for a good horror setting though, as evidenced by the likes of BioShock , SOMA , and Iron Lung , and now KEROGEN is entering the fray for the title of "I'm not sure I can keep my eyes open while I play this" that SOMA currently holds in my heart. KEROGEN, a psychological horror where you "dredge up corpses from an oil-drenched nightmare," pits you as a "forsaken drone operator forced to investigate a sunken oil-tanker." Your name is Oteil, and in order to explore under the sea (under the sea!) they project their mind into machines. "With every dive, precious parts of you are lost in the transition." The SOMA comparisons continue, though they do seem to end there as vibe wise this sits in the direction of that ever-trendy low-poly PS1-esque game vibe.…

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