As survival-horror town names go, Shivercliff is really skirting the edges of self-parody. But that s what the creators of Husk [official website] have gone with. It s a first-person psychological horror game that they re describing as a tribute to classics like Silent Hill. Set in the dreadyear of 1995, you ve been in a train crash outside the mysterious town but there s no sign of your daughter and wife. You ll be navigating the abandoned settlement, shining a torch at things and looking for your loved ones. Is that them, up ahead? No. That is a twisted and monstrous manifestation of all your emotionally repressed fears. Pull yourself together, mate.
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