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Tormenture takes the Inscryption meta-horror formula back to 8-bit gaming and the 1980sAtaaAaAaAAAAAAari classics

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Image credit:Billete Cohete

Image credit:Billete Cohete

An 8-bit 2D labyrinth in horror game Tormenture

Tormenture - Launch Date AnnouncementWatch on YouTube

Tormenture - Launch Date Announcement

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Downsides? Well, it doesn’t seem as loopy as Inscryption. The clear love of throwback memorabilia on show could make for an overly comfortable chiller on the whole. But why content yourself with my aimless speculations? I don’t even have a proper PC to play this on.The game’s demo is still live on Steam at the time of writing.

Another thought Tormenture inspires is that games from Atari’s halycon era make natural Halloween fodder because the default state of the screen is darkness. Nowadays, we’re used to desktops that blaze like stained glass windows at full noon, with barely any negative space at all. Bring back those cavernous CRT graphics, I say. Make me feel young again.