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[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Nightmare Forge games has announced Infestation 88, a new horror game that aims to blend terror with nostalgia (in the vein of Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey) by twisting the now-in-the-public-domain Steamboat Willie into something much scarier.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Nightmare Forge games has announced Infestation 88, a new 1-4 player survival horror co-op game that aims to infuse nostalgia with terror (in the vein of Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey) by twisting the now-in-the-public-domain Steamboat Willie into something much scarier. It's in development for PC.

The developers describe it as such: "In the year 1988, what was thought to be an outbreak of rodents in various locations morphed into something far more sinister." Sometimes you'll need to fight, sometimes you'll need to run, and sometimes you'll need to hide in a locker. You can set traps and utilize CCTV cameras to try and stay one step ahead of the infestation, and item layouts are randomized in order to help keep matches fresh. Check out the announcement trailer above and the first screenshots in the gallery below.

Nightmare Forge promises private and public lobbies, character customization, scaling enemy behavior, and DLSS support. If you're interested, you can wishlist Infestation 88 on Steam.

Mickey Mouse-Inspired Horror Game 'Infestation 88' Announced - IGN

Nightmare Forge games has announced Infestation 88, a new 1-4 player survival horror co-op game that aims to infuse nostalgia with terror (in the vein of Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey) by twisting the now-in-the-public-domain Steamboat Willie into something much scarier. It's in development...

www.ign.com

 

[Nemesisuuu]

Sounding a little nazi from the game title, maybe that's the nostalgia they are after?

Edit:

My point is that game name is just a bit unfortunate.

 

[The Cockatrice]

Did they wait for the Mickey Mouse thing to go public domain just to reveal their shitty game?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2024/01/01/mickey-mouse-public-domain-steamboat-willie/

 

[NekoFever]

All this stuff is going to be fun from a legal perspective. You know if there’s anything that was added to the Mickey character post-Steamboat Willie, Disney will be all over it. Plus there’s the obvious gambit of putting Steamboat Willie in the WDAS logo in the last few years to get it under trademark protection, which doesn’t expire. And Mickey himself is a trademark too.

I can see why people are trying it from a free publicity standpoint but I wouldn’t be touching it with a ten-foot pole.