Horses, announced as part of IGN Summer of Gaming, has one of the weirdest (and potentially NSFW) trailers you’ll see.
In the horror game you play a summer farm worker responsible for taking care of the animals. But, it turns out, not is all that it seems.
Expect “unsettling” mysteries to solve as you follow the “cryptic” rules of the farmer. It’s up to you to explore the depths of the farm, although it sounds like terrors await.
Fused with the gameplay are live action intermissions between each of the 14 days over which Horses takes place. The idea is to survive the fortnight on the farm: “Withstand 14 days of spiraling dread as the twisted reality of the farm unfolds.”
Horses, directed by Andrea Lucco Borlera and developed by Santa Ragione, the Milan-based studio behind Saturnalia, takes inspiration from silent cinema, Surrealism and the Grotesque.
There is a long list of content warnings, including physical violence, psychological abuse, gory imagery (mutilation, blood), depictions of slavery, torture, domestic abuse, sexual assault and substance abuse.
Throughout the game, character dialogue makes references to psychological trauma that some may find distressing or disturbing, Santa Ragione warned. With this in mind, the developers added a censored streamer mode.
A PC and Mac release is planned for 2024, with a Steam page live now.
In case you missed it, here’s our Xbox showcase roundup, and here’s everything shown during the Starfield Direct. Check out our Summer of Gaming 2023 schedule to find out what’s coming next.
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