Indie developer Variable State has announced Deepest Fear, a new survival horror FPS / metroidvania game set deep below the ocean’s surface.
Deepest Fear is in development for Windows PC (via Steam), though a release date wasn’t announced.
Here’s a rundown on the game, plus its reveal trailer:
Deepest Fear is a sci-fi horror FPS with a retro-future aesthetic. Deep beneath the ocean, a long dormant secret has been unearthed which throws mankind’s future into jeopardy. As Dr. Danni Carrol, fight your way to the heart of a secret project masterminded by your estranged father and uncover mysteries both deeply personal and terrifying in their implications. Using real time fluid simulation, fight otherworldly entities which manifest spontaneously from any water source, all while the environment around you can flood and take in water at any moment, sweeping you away with unpredictable currents. Deepest Fear combines Metroidvania level design in the context of a classic FPS immersive sim, where the game’s setting is a puzzle to unravel and where creativity and improvisation are your greatest assets.
Channeling the spirit of iconic and subversive 1980s horror action films such as The Abyss, The Thing, The Fly, and Total Recall, and more broadly the cinematic canons of James Cameron, John Carpenter, David Cronenberg, and Paul Verhoven, Deepest Fear aims to stay true to our inspirations’ blend of visceral horror, vivid characterisation, and confrontational storytelling. And in the realm of interactivity, our thoughts are never far from titles such as Metroid Prime, Half-Life 2, System Shock 2, and Dead Space.
FEATURES
- Fear the water – Steel your nerves against the darkness, as terrifying creatures dynamically spawn from any water source, as real time fluid simulation creates unpredictable, emergent horror scenarios, and as an oppressive, decaying facilities collapses around you, threatening to suffocate you in the ocean depths.
- Take a deep breath. It could be your last – Use your wits, technology, and firearms to fight a tide of terrors, and make it out alive.
- Unravel the mysteries of this unsettling retro-futurist world – Plunge into the original setting of Neptune, a clandestine facility in the unexplored depths of the ocean, immaculately rendered using the power of Unreal Engine 5. Encounter a rich cast of inhabitants in a world scarred by fear and mistrust.
