Death Relives is a first-person survival horror game in which you must attempt to avoid being sacrificed to/murdered by the Aztec god Xipe Totec, and it's coming to PS5 at some point in the future.
Developed by Nyctophile Studios (the condition of being very happy and comfortable in the dark), a team that professes a love for horror and mythology, gameplay options are restricted to simply running and hiding to survive in the terrifying style of series like Amnesia or Outlast.
It's the specificity of this one we find quite intriguing; Xipe Totec, known as "Our Lord the Flayed One", was a life-death-rebirth deity worshipped in Mesoamerica during the Early Postclassic era who was often depicted wearing flayed human skin as a cloak. The realm of religious gaming could be about to level up; now we need the announcement of an I Am Jesus Christ console port.
What do you think of Death Relives? Does the prospect of ritual sacrifice entice? Run for your life in the comments section below.
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Got me excited when the article said survival horror, but then I read Outlast and Amnesia, and run and hide, so pass. Can't stand no combat horror games.
Yeah I'm really just over these horror games that is just run and hide and not doing anything new for the survival horror gameplay. Only one I have any interest in rn is Outlast Trials because there's coop. Just gonna go back to playing Fatal Frame 4.
@Constable_What I’m 100% with you on that. Layers Of Fear is another one… Yick
@Arnna it'd be interesting to see how many people like these. I know people do, but I wonder if these kinds a game's aren't a fad, like a niche within a niche. With Capcom killing it with these Resident Evil Remakes, I would like to think that more and more people are accepting survival horror as a mainstream genre, and less people are interested in the whole "run and hide walking sim" subgenre.
I just don't understand the appeal! Imo, you play one of these games, you've played them all. Layers of Fear and Outlast? Literally the same game. Like Depeche Mode and Joy Division. Same band tbh
@Constable_What I much prefer to play a Resident Evil game or The Evil Within. They aren’t necessarily the scariest games in the world but they often have very creepy sections and the overall gameplay is super excellent in all of those games (except RE6 haha) Combat is a must.
If I want to play a walking sim style game I’ll play Gone Home or What Remains Of Edith Finch. I think there are some real gems in that genre.
Layers of Fear in particular really bored me to death. The narrative was nowhere near solid enough to justify the total lack of gameplay. In fact I’d go so far as to say the narrative of that game was completely one dimensional garbage and not scary in the slightest..
@Constable_What Haha at least Depeche Mode had synths.
@Constable_What 100%. Exactly what I was going to write. I love games like DooM 3 and even Alien Isolation lets you use weapons to some degree. I absolutely LOVE my first person horror but no weapons and running like a coward isn't fun at all. I'm looking forward to Quantum Error not this
@Arnna I never played Layers of Fear, but I played Outlast, so I agree.
Haha, yes, Depeche Mode has synths. Maybe that's the combat that is missing in Layers of Fear, Outlast, all these games.
@Kenshir0 Completely agree! Taking away the ability to fight is just taking away a response that a player would have when afraid. It's not immersive, and it's jarring. Like Alien Isolation, let me have the option even if it's a terrible idea. Nothing in a horror game feels me with more dread than knowing I have a weapon, and the means and mindset to fight back, but that it's futile to do so. That's what makes Mr. X so scary in RE2. Bad idea to fight him, instead you have to use your enviroment to get away from him, and eventually lose him, while also dealing with zombies that are in your way or even a Licker you might have missed. It adds onto the tension.
Run and hide horror takes that choice away, and instead what you're left with is :
Can I hide? No? OK I guess I run.
Can I run? No? OK I guess I hide.
Not that I'm completely against no combat in horror games either. I really enjoy Supermassive's games. Probably because those games are built on player choice though.
A pretty decent middle ground is Amnesia: The Bunker, but even then that game devolves into a series of check-boxes and routine that it becomes dull towards the end.
I'm actually looking forward to Quantum Error too. The gameplay from two days ago, looks so much better than the gameplay from a month ago. Gives me Doom 3 vibes actually!
Sacrilege!
@PegasusActual93 @Perturbator It's just a joke. They obviously aren't the same band!
Or maybe you're obviously not ready for that revelation... >_>
@Constable_What I assumed you were kidding. Big fan of both but I can quickly get enough of "Just Can't Get Enough".
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