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Gone Home studio Fullbright are now making games about horrible toilet spidersEight-legged walking sim
Eight-legged walking sim
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Image credit:Fullbright
You probably still know Fullbright as the studio behindGone Home, a delicately experimental first-person yarn about a girl exploring her family home after travelling overseas, and learning about the turmoil in her absence. Picture that game in your mind: the quietness of the hallways versus the crash of a thunderstorm outside, the sickly-sweet 90s décor, the fairy lights and screwed-up balls of paper, the gentle amber pressure of cloistered teenage memories. Now, imagine a faint scuttling behind the skirting boards. A rattling in the pipes. Was there a toilet in Gone Home’s autumnal mansion? I can’t recall, but you should probably steer clear.
Now available onSteam,Toilet Spidersis the first in a new anthology series of “short, strange, lo-fi games”, gathered under the label Fullbright Presents. To crib unceremoniously from the Steam blurb, it’s “a short, replayable lo-fi first-person survival horror game where you must learn to judge your odds and manage your resources to avoid or scare off the giant radioactive spiders laying in wait inside filthy toilets that contain the keys and items you need to complete your mission and escape with your life.”
As of September 2023, Gaynor was Fullbright’s sole remaining employee. I think Toilet Spiders is mostly his work. It is… dangerously easy to read Toilet Spiders as some kind of commentary on the events above, and on Gaynor’s state of mind since. Don’t let that stop you, though.
