While the horror doesn’t jump out at you (at least, not in the demo), the unsettling atmosphere, the just plain weirdness of the setting, and the excellent sound design perfectly capture the feeling of being alone with something just behind you, out of sight. You can even send items through the mirror to other players who might need them, and receive items and plot hints in return. Using the mirror, attached computer, and social network comprised of other players, you can open more doors and explore the building. After a voice escorts your blindfolded character into a room, dropping you in front of a strange statue holding a mirror, the eeriness of the game hits you like a ton of bricks. While the demo contains many sharp tongue-in-cheek moments, it manages to avoid both mood whiplash and becoming a straightforwardly comedic game by revealing (through dialogue and cutscenes) exactly how dark this world really is, walking the knife-edge between humor and outright horror.ĭeveloper: Revolab, Ivan Zanotti’s MyMadnessWorksīilled as a “social horror game,” Mirror Layers begins with a mysterious invitation to an escape room in an abandoned apartment. Each day finds you moving between the tiers of the couple’s building, making sure the murder-to-meat-pie pipeline moves smoothly, occasionally buying upgrades or dealing with issues that might arise. Ravenous Devils is a game best described as “a Sweeney Todd business simulator,” where you juggle moneymaking, supplies, and time management as well as shanking random customers in the kidneys, stripping their clothes for the tailor shop you also run, baking them into pies (according to Grandma’s family recipe), and then disposing of the evidence. Having fled their former home and upon arriving in a crime-ridden city, Percival and Hildred set about their business: murdering their unsuspecting customers and promptly grinding them up as meat to use in Hildred’s pies.
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