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Developer/ publisher Enigma Studio Format PC Origin Ireland Release October

Just as legions of videogame designers have striven to recreate the aesthetics of the pioneering 8- and 16bit eras,childhoods. Many current developers’ formative experiences with the medium came in the early 32bit days, and there’s a subset of those studios working in a fuzzy, polygonal PS1 style that have smartly recognised its utility for horror games, where that lack of detail is a boon: after all, it’s what you see that scares you most.

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