Command and quiver: how games like Cataclismo, Aliens: Dark Descent and The Fabulous Fear Machine are exploring the overlap between strategy and horror in our Sunday read.
, out next week on console and PC, in which you guide a quartet of gung-ho yet fragile troopers around xeno-infested bases, tracking down survivors and trying not to wake the full wrath of the Hive.
Most horror developers want you to enjoy moments of feeling like you're on top of things, if not literally viewing them from above, so they can whip the carpet from under you.
The game leans into that anxiety by encouraging you to avoid clashes - which, amongst other things, increase the map's overall threat level - and so, asking you to spend the mission peering at those dots, trying to determine their direction of travel, and clenching your teeth in proportion to the rising, falling beep of your proximity detector.
This forest can be hard to read, even from an elevated viewpoint. Zoom to finesse the construction of a bridge, and you'll often end up with a faceful of foliage, forcing you to spin the view and often, disorient yourself further. I frequently lost my bearings while guiding troops through the woodlands in the demo's first half. At the game's creepiest, I was reminded not of other strategy titles but of, with its shifting, splintered vision cones while roving between the trunks.
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