Tis the season for horror games…for some reason. Between the release of Resident Evil 7 and the announcements of Perception and 2Dark as well as an all-new Call of Cthulhu trailer, there's a little something for seemingly every kind of horror fan. Now, Spanish indie studio 3D2 Entertainment has announced the impending release of their upcoming psychological horror investigation game, The Crow's Eye.
The team released an all-new trailer (embedded above) that showcases a little bit of the game's atmosphere from its central location, the abandoned Crowswood University. The story is revealed through documents, recordings, and radio broadcasts which are scattered around the environment, leveraging a similar style of storytelling to that of something like Gone Home.
You play as a young man who finds himself trapped on the abandoned campus for reasons unknown 20 years after the disappearance of four students forced the University to shut its doors to investigate the surrounding area. More people begin disappearing as the days go by, including police officers and professors, and no progress is made on the case.
Here's a list of features in The Crow's Eye, courtesy of an official press release:
- Explore a variety of haunting, mysterious environments in a first-person adventure of investigation and psychological terror.
- Use your wits–and the items you find scattered through the environment–to solve puzzles and overcome obstacles that you will encounter through nine different levels.
- Investigate an intense story narrated through recordings, documents and radio, and piece together the mystery of what happened at Crowswood and why you're there.
- Enjoy a haunting original soundtrack that will keep you immersed at all times.
The Crow's Eye will release exclusively on Steam sometime in Q1 2017.
