How far tubby honey bear Winnie-the-Pooh has fallen. Now that he’s entered the general public area, he can now not merely stumble by the painless Hundred Acre Wooden stuffing his face filled with dessert with no pants on. Now, he performs the swollen and bleeding protagonist to the just-announced indie horror recreation Winnie’s Gap, and he nonetheless has no pants on.
The sport comes from Australian-based studio Twice Completely different, which launched its first title, the macabre roguelike card crawler Ring of Ache, in 2020. Winnie’s Gap, as an “accessible turn-based roguelite with auto battling components,” a press launch says, takes elements of Ring of Ache’s unorthodox roguelike experiments and applies them to, um, Winnie’s gap.
Regardless of your worst fears, the opening in query is neither a butthole nor a mouth gap, however one thing extra unnatural—a toothed void in Pooh’s abdomen that represents you, the virus contorting the bear’s as soon as sugary physique into an immovable collection of tumors.
“You’re that change beneath the pores and skin,” growls the sport’s haunting announcement trailer. “Unfold illness, discover increasing piece-by-piece, […] adapt your host, good their type” with twitching eyeballs, wriggling additional fingers, and fissures pierced with pointed enamel, spewing purple slime. Cool, so similar to Ozempic, then.
“You’re bodybuilding an abomination,” Twice Completely different’s press launch decides, “and with restricted vitality flowing by your host’s physique, you additionally handle this useful resource by activating or deactivating elements to finest create synergies, or to counter sure opponents.
“As you progress and infect extra animals you’ll unlock new content material together with mutations, upgrades and playable characters, every with a twist on the exploration mechanics for an evolving problem on this contemporary turn-based dungeon crawler format.”
I’m genuinely wanting ahead to taking part in this. I imagine that each one that the majority online game codecs must really feel new once more is extra viral sicknesses, and possibly even some pus, too.
Winnie’s Gap will probably be out for early entry later this 12 months, and solely on Steam.