New Horror Game ‘Hektor’ Goes Crazy on Steam

<p>First-person survival horror games are definitely in right now&comma; and the trend looks to be continuing with <em>Hektor<&sol;em>&comma; albeit with a unique twist&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The game&comma; from developer Rubycone Games and Publisher Meridian4&comma; sets gamers on a first-person quest to escape HEKTOR&comma; a subterranean research facility in Greenland where they have been driven mad through years of torture and confinement&period;  However&comma; your character&&num;8217&semi;s insanity is reflected in its levels&comma; where procedural generation means that the levels change around you in real time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The reason good survival horror games are so scary&comma; is because they make you feel like you’re there&comma;” said Felix Nordanåker&comma; CEO of Rubycone&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We wanted <em>Hektor<&sol;em> to push this &OpenCurlyQuote;immersion’ further by making players not only feel like they’re there&comma; but there as our main character-experiencing his psychosis first hand&period; This is why we developed JIGSAW&comma; a system for generating levels in real time&period; The effect is disorienting and unsettling&colon; both characteristic of a broken mind&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Fans of games like <em>Outlast <&sol;em>and <em>Amnesia <&sol;em>will certainly want to check this out now on <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;store&period;steampowered&period;com&sol;app&sol;334070">Steam<&sol;a>&comma; where it can be purchased for &dollar;19&period;99&comma; although there is a 25&percnt; discount through March 20th&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;