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Solbrand Demo Released for PC Horror Puzzle Adventure
Dead People Dreaming has released a demo for Solbrand, a science fiction cosmic horror puzzle adventure game.
Reporting from 1 source: Game Spark.
Why it matters
The demo puts Dead People Dreaming's dual-perspective investigation loop, top-down for terrain and first-person for detail, in front of players ahead of a Steam launch, which is the point at which a small studio's puzzle adventure either finds an audience or does not.
Players take the role of a new spook, an investigator, aboard the ocean survey vessel HMS Solbrand, piloting a submersible through the submerged ruins of Urarakil, a reimagined sunken version of Uppsala, Sweden, where Norse myth is filtered through cosmic horror. The game is planned for release on PC via Steam.
Dead People Dreaming sets the demo aboard the survey ship Solbrand, where a crew waits above the water: the captain, Tinker, Warder, and Shimmer. Below, players switch between a top-down view for reading terrain and a first-person view for close inspection, using a tool called Vizier to examine ruins buried in seabed sediment.
Collected fragments go to an archive on the ship for analysis, and strengthening the signal opens new exploration areas. Named locations in sunken Urarakil include a psychiatric hospital, a botanical garden, a burned cathedral, and an old observatory. The demo downloads from its own page.
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