It explores horror through atmosphere and exploration, not with scores and combat systems.
Merging a child’s perception of reality with its wild imagination provides an interesting setting to tell a story. With only your teddy bear as a companion, we hope players will unravel what is actually causing the fear and confusion. There might be threats hiding in every shadow, but there’s no traditional combat. Instead of fighting, players will actively have to find places to hide in the environment, and avoid confrontation to survive.
Regarding the environmental interaction, it's physics based, so you’ll be able to push, pull and climb objects to reach places, open and close doors, make a staircase out of drawers, peek around corners, carry and place small objects, and the list goes on.
Check out SOEDESCO Community Manager Marten Buijsse playing the first ten minutes of Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition on his Nintendo Switch.
The nightmarish first person horror game Among the Sleep is sneaking to Nintendo Switch on May 29, 2019, both digitally and physically.
Originally released in 2014, in the enhanced edition Krillbite Studio has improved all aspects of the game. There are graphical enhancements and gameplay tweaks, improved interactions, additional dialogue, a pyjamas selector for the toddler and an interactive museum level that let’s you explore the content of the game and exclusive behind the scenes material.
Additionally, the game is getting a new physical version for PS4 and Xbox One.
Key Features:
- Enhanced edition with new dialogue, better performance & visuals and more
- Put the pieces of the puzzle together to find out what has happened to your mother
- Creep through threatening environments like a twisted forest and a dark house
- Unravel a disturbing story filled with tension, symbolism and psychological horror
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