The mix of strategy and horror Terror was inspired by a real event -apkrig
Perhaps in 2018 you recorded an interesting and well-cast historical-mysterious series The Terror, the first series of which was based on the book of the same name by the popular writer Dan Simmons (Kantos Hyperion). The story was inspired by the so-called Franklin expedition from the mid-19th century, which aimed to find the Northwest Passage connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean across the Arctic Ocean. So the opportunity to circumnavigate America from the north. The expedition of the ships Erebus and Terror ended in failure. To put it mildly. Both ships were lost and their crews perished. For many decades, the event has been the subject of mysteries, speculation and conspiracies, and to this day some circumstances remain unclear, which has stimulated the imagination of various creative souls.
What will you do when food supplies begin to run low, officers begin to riot, and madness and death begin to spread across the board?
Now the mysterious and terrifying expedition has inspired the developers of Terror: Endless Night. The board game The Walker in the Wastes was once created, but the novelty is my first attempt at video game processing. According to the developers from the Unseen Silence and Pixel Crow studios, this is a unique mix of turn-based strategy and survival horror. In Terror: Endless Night, we become the captain of a ship trapped in ice. The authors ask us: “What will you do when food supplies start to run low, officers start to riot and madness and death start to spread across the board?”
The developers claim that it will be a gust of fresh wind in the field of survival horror and strategy. According to them, thinning supplies will be our least problem as soon as the crew begins to fall into the arms of madness. The authors clearly deviate from reality in the same way as Dan Simmons and the series adaptation. But we will not follow the fate of the first two named ships, we will lead a rescue expedition to track them down. We need to find out the truth about Franklin’s expedition and find out what happened to it. At the same time, however, we fall into a freezing trap.
Players must adapt to the hostile environment of the icy wasteland that surrounds the trapped vessel. We need to manage supplies, give orders, keep the crew warm, and come up with a plan to save them all. Our primary task is to keep the sailors alive, even at the cost of heavy casualties. Developers say we will face difficult moral choices. Do the needs of the majority outweigh the needs of the minority? How do you deal with traitors and deserters? Are everyone on the ship equal? And how do you feed your crew?
In the face of a hopeless situation on a claustrophobic ship, you find yourself on the verge of madness. And what starts to happen on board, according to the authors, can be reminiscent of nightmares and horror. The game will obviously have minimalist audiovisual processing, but this does not necessarily hurt. Even in the submission of text bubbles and messages, some decisions already have an unpleasant taste. And literally. We will have to choose whether the crew without supplies should resort to cannibalism and eat dead colleagues.
Terror: Endless Night is currently aimed only at Windows and its publisher is the Polish company Movie Games.
