Keeping your creepazoid partially concealed to sustain its scarepower is a spooking trick as old and perfect as ＢＯＯ！ yelling when someone least expects it. (Pretend you heard that sentence out loud to receive a spine-tingling thrill.) The makers of Noct [official site] know this. The multiplayer arcade shooter-y survival horror goes from “Oh that looks interesting” to “Oh that looks awful!” by showing everything from the eerie top-down perspective of a thermal imaging satellite. Mundane monsters become horrible pixellated amorphous masses lit up white against a grey world.
We’ll all get to die together soon, as publishers Devolver Digital have announced a release date of October 22nd. They’ve also made a nice new trailer: