Alright, DreadOut info (I-am-hyped) post.
DreadOut is an Indonesian horror game that went through a successful crowd-funding campaign last year and was greenlit on Steam around the same time. The game takes a lot of inspiration from the
Fatal Frame series, starring a girl who comes with a group of friends who takes care of spirits and supernatural beings with a phone camera.
Before I go too deep into this, the game released a demo over a year ago that is about 15-20 minutes long. The game (and demo) can be played on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
DreadOut deals with a group of teens who on their vacation trip end up in an old, deserted town. Linda, our main character who has a sensitivity to the spiritual, senses something within the town, but her friends don't listen to her. And before they know it, they find themselves dealing with the spirits and monsters depicted in Indonesian mythology.
The game deals with the sort of horror stories that come from Indonesia and wears it very proudly. I don't know how many of you know much about horror stories from Indonesia, but it's very promising and something horror games haven't dealt with. They have very rich folk-stories and myths, and there's a few very good foreign horror films that deal with these stories. They have very fascinating monsters and folkstories.
The gameplay is also like an updated Fatal Frame. The game claims you'll be using a variety of different tools in your environment for puzzles and combat. smartphones, microphones, digital cameras, digital video cameras, and more. You're also exploring the odd town, which includes locations ranging from market venues to schools to forests to graveyards, sewers, and other things.
There's also been further updates and demo builds for those who supported the campaign, but development has been coming along nicely. They've been kind of quiet to the public as they've been rapidly designing areas as they hired more staff to get more down.
Here's a couple trailers though:
March 2013 Demo Teaser Trailer
December 2013 Teaser Trailer
I was waiting to post more on the game when new public news was out since the last public update was almost five months ago, but since it seems most don't know what it is even I think I should post about it. If you like horror games, or Fatal Frame, or want a sort of modern old-school styled horror game, I'd keep your eyes on this one.