Never Look Back Horror Game Announced for November Steam Release
The two-person team Elternity's debut title combines a cute rubber duck mechanic with eerie liminal spaces, creating a trade-off between comfort and risk that sets it apart in the horror genre.
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Developer Elternity announced NEVER LOOK BACK, an anomaly hunting horror game for PC via Steam, launching in November. Players descend an infinite office staircase filled with liminal space and dreamcore-style scenes, following rules from a mysterious voice called The Architect while avoiding a pursuing darkness. The game features 30 anomaly types and a rubber duck that both comforts and risks attracting danger.
Elternity, a two-person development team, announced their debut title NEVER LOOK BACK on June 20. The PC horror game launches on Steam in November and supports Japanese display. Players descend an infinite office staircase through liminal spaces and dreamcore-style environments, including white-tiled staircases, grasslands with giant alarm clocks, and bathroom-like areas. A mysterious voice called The Architect dictates rules that players must follow while anomalies appear around them. The darkness approaching from behind pursues the player, and failure to follow the rules means getting caught.
The game includes 30 types of anomalies, each with different behaviors. Some appear as red-black cubes, beach balls, or crustaceans carrying human-face-like objects. Others move objects, distort space, or camouflage as parts of the staircase. The player carries a rubber duck that can be squeezed to calm anxiety, but the squeaking sound attracts the darkness. This creates a trade-off between using the duck for comfort and staying silent to avoid danger. As players descend deeper, anomalies intensify and the darkness thickens. Elternity stated their goal is to create an experience that resonates deeply, and they welcome player feedback to improve the game's quality.
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