First-person survival horror games are definitely in right now, and the trend looks to be continuing with Hektor, albeit with a unique twist.
The game, from developer Rubycone Games and Publisher Meridian4, sets gamers on a first-person quest to escape HEKTOR, a subterranean research facility in Greenland where they have been driven mad through years of torture and confinement. However, your character’s insanity is reflected in its levels, where procedural generation means that the levels change around you in real time.
“The reason good survival horror games are so scary, is because they make you feel like you’re there,” said Felix Nordanåker, CEO of Rubycone. “We wanted Hektor to push this ‘immersion’ further by making players not only feel like they’re there, but there as our main character-experiencing his psychosis first hand. This is why we developed JIGSAW, a system for generating levels in real time. The effect is disorienting and unsettling: both characteristic of a broken mind.”
Fans of games like Outlast and Amnesia will certainly want to check this out now on Steam, where it can be purchased for $19.99, although there is a 25% discount through March 20th.