It's hard to articulate to younger audiences just how impactful Psygnosis has been to video games. On PC, the publisher had a unique horror experience with Ecstatica. While the 1994 game has its troubled controls and awkward camera angles, it did offer something never before seen. The entire game is mostly built by ellipsoids, rather than triangular polygons, as it was technologically more feasible at the time. This spherical approach allowed for a more elaborate world, full of creepy crawlies that are trying to kill you. And it was mostly done by one person!
The game's second revolutionary act was this unbelievably badass box art; just top shelf stuff:
if you see an European-made game from the 90s or 2000s with a weird name that's some strange-sounding adjective or a word with seemingly no connection to the plot, it most likely rips
