had a pretty good time with the demo for CONSCRIPT, a WW1 horror game in a bit of that PS1-horror style that's so hot these days.
Possibly the most interesting thing about it, to me, is that while it's clearly indebted to the history of survival-horror as a genre, and the tone is super informed by those sort of games, the actual subject matter here is, as far as I can tell, entirely mundane -- by which I mean, non-supernatural. It's playing with the horror scenarios brought on through WW1, but insofar as what's in the demo it's entirely real-world stuff. Gas, trenches, scarcity of resources, human bodies blown apart by machinery, all that brutality of WW1 stuff.
It's a cool approach in a way I haven't seen before, and its honestly quite impressive how well the context of WW1 can be mapped into a horror game scenario. cool thing to check out
