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Digested is a bodycam horror game about being ssssstuck on an island with a giant snakeGuess what happens when it catches you
Guess what happens when it catches you
Image credit:DigiGhost Studios
Image credit:DigiGhost Studios
Fortunately, I had a lucid dreaming strategy for escaping from Snake World: relax all my limbs as much as I could, then flail around violently to wake myself up. It doesn’t look like this will be an effective gambit in Digested, a bodycamhorrorgame about being stuck on a barren, thinly forested and possibly irradiated island with a giant snake. Your tactical options seem to consist mostly here of running away.
DIGESTED | Official Announcement TrailerWatch on YouTube
DIGESTED | Official Announcement Trailer
Functionally, Digested sounds a bit likeSlender: The Eight Pages. To beat the game you have to gather randomly distributed navigation points from around an island map so as to track down an escape pod. You start with just a map and a compass, but there are “power-ups” that will help you “outsmart” your serpentine adversary. I’m guessing here, but developer Karel are surely missing a trick if the snake doesn’t become more aggressive, the closer you are to finding the pod.
Image credit:DigiGhost Studios
And then there’s the bodycam perspective, which is unhelpful in that it imposes a wobbly fisheye effect that makes it harder to identify objects in the undergrowth, but has tactical utility in that you can flip the camera and use it as a rearview mirror. In the trailer, it looks like the player is trying to do a TikTok with the snake, which I thought was funny till I realised that many serial TikTok users would likely do exactly this, if they were stuck on an island with a massive predator. Social media will be the death of us all.
Digested is slated for release/excretion in 2024. If you find the idea horrendous, the obvious antidote is Konami’s forthcomingMetal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eaterreboot, which Sonyhave claimed is also out this year.
