UN:Me Brings Soul-Swap Horror to the gamescom Floor
The playable demo at a major gaming event gives the public a direct look at a horror premise built around choosing which of several traumatized souls inside one girl survives.
Reporting from 1 source: Automaton.
Automaton played the playable demo of UN:Me at the Shueisha Games booth at gamescom, which began August 26 in Cologne. The horror escape adventure takes place in a 3D labyrinth where a young girl holds multiple souls. Players explore the School field map, find key items, and learn each soul's background through dialogue before deciding which one stays.
The demo opens in the School field map, where familiar sights like an entrance hall lined with shoe lockers and classrooms sit alongside alien details: vines overgrow the buildings, classrooms fill with water to the ceiling, and seated students have flowers blooming where their heads should be. One figure claps while swaying its flower head. Communication with these beings feels impossible, leaving the player the only person in the space.
Exploration means hunting key items and uncovering the backgrounds of the souls inside the protagonist. The first key item, found in a music preparation room, unlocked the question "What is your happiest memory?" for the current soul, a typical high school girl who speaks haltingly and changes expression subtly, enough to feel like she could exist somewhere in the real world.
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