Thanks to some wonderful narration, the game is sure to tug on players’ heartstrings as much as it’ll scare them silly. Armed with only a camera, its FATAL FRAME-esque gameplay is a lovely change of pace from the standard shooter formula, and its time-travelling element allows for some distinctive locations and puzzles. With the proper CRT monitor and filters enabled through the menu, UKTENA 64 is easily passable as an actual title for the retro gaming console, and its loading screens and menus will instill heavy nostalgia for any horror gamers that grew up playing the TUROK series.ĪXIS MUNDI from Philip Hesselback sees a paranormal investigator sent to a haunted shopping mall to rid the building of its unwanted supernatural tenants.

As lovable backwoods hunter Jebediah, players face-off against mutated turkeys, wolves, and much more throughout the game’s numerous levels. Neat references to that film and each individual game can be found scattered throughout its sprawling environments, and players will likely have just as much fun navigating its frozen, blood encrusted halls as diving into the each of the collection’s games themselves.Īlready renowned for their indie horror classic LOST IN VIVO and crafting DREAD X COLLECTION 3’s colourful launcher, developer KIRA’s contribution here is UKTENA 64, a Nintendo 64-inspired hunting simulator that’s heavy on oddball humour and visual flair. The ARK 2 setting is clearly an homage to John Carpenter’s THE THING, though it’s still unique enough to be its own thing. Though you’ll do a decent amount of puzzle-solving to piece together the events that lead to the outbreak of the mysterious “cognitovirus,” this game-within-a-game juxtaposes the role of the hunter found in many of its other titles when it becomes clear that someone – or something – is tracking down Artemis as well. Players begin the collection as Artemis, a tracker who arrives at the desolate ARK 2 research base after being contacted by a scientist in desperate need of her abilities.

As this game’s subtitle indicates, the theme here is hunting, presented in the form of seven shooters – though not all containing typical firearms that one may expect. Featuring an in-depth launcher courtesy of Nate Berens ( CELLULAR HARVEST), DREAD X COLLECTION: THE HUNT unites an excellent group of indie horror titles that are more than worth trekking through an arctic tundra to unearth.ĭUSK developer David Szymanski has stepped in as a director for THE HUNT, having previously been featured in the first two collections with THE PONY FACTORY and SQUIRREL STAPLER. That’s right… it’s time for another DREAD X COLLECTION from publisher Dread XP.

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