Conscript is an upcoming survival horror game that does something relatively rare for videogames; make war seem suitably terrifying and awful.
Out of the 20th century’s many terrible conflicts, the first World War looms large in the popular imagination. Ill-fated charges into no man’s land, chemical weapons, and rampant disease amidst squalid living conditions define a struggle that extinguished millions of lives., an upcoming indie effort that recently received a new demo on Steam, successfully transposes this terrifying setting into the conventions of old-school survival horror.
While plenty of games have attempted to represent the world wars’ brutality, most are shooters ultimately designed to grant empowerment. By instead channeling the tone and feel of early Resident Evil games,focuses on the helplessness and mortal fear intrinsic to its setting. We follow Andre, a French soldier stationed on the frontline during 1916’s infamous battle of Verdun.
From here on, you are alone, and your only company is ominous gas-masked visages that prowl the trenches for intruders. Tonally there is a complete commitment to a threatening atmosphere. The grainy aesthetic depicts a desolate wasteland haunted by butchery, its washed-out color palette and pitch-black subterranean trenches establishing tension. At least early on, there is nothing supernatural or otherworldly.
Mechanically, the cadence of these lethal encounters doubles down on scrambly close combat. While there are various firearms, things are confined to narrow trenches, meaning enemy soldiers will almost always be right on top of you. To avoid incoming shovels and gunfire, carefully timed combat rolls are necessary, but evading preemptively or too often will deplete stamina and get you killed.
While many survival horror games punish you for allowing assailants to get close, the methodical aiming and long reload times make this circumstance an inevitability. The decision to have these close-ranged scuffles be unavoidable was well-considered, as it creates a constant stream of horribly intimate exchanges.
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