Cryptica Trailer Reveals Antarctic Horror and a Missing Sister
The trailer highlights the hallucination mechanic and the 5-8 hour runtime, giving players a clear sense of Cryptica's scope before its Steam release.
Reporting from 1 source: Game Spark.
Developer Graham Uhelsk released a new trailer for Cryptica, a narrative-driven psycho horror game set in Antarctica. Players control Ari Harper, who searches for her sister and crew who vanished during a documentary shoot. The game features 5-8 hours of play, first-person or third-person exploration, and hallucination-inducing fungi caused by permafrost melting. Cryptica is scheduled for release on PC via Steam.
Exploration takes place across abandoned mines, ruined whaling bases, and ancient ruins, where video recordings explain what happened to the missing film crew. The game also promises extradimensional beings, ghosts, unidentified anomalous phenomena, and conspiracies. The fungi introduced by permafrost melting cause auditory and visual hallucinations, and the player decides what is real. Cryptica is scheduled for release on PC via Steam, with no date announced.
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