Indie studio Aarre Leisure has introduced its new technique recreation The Infernal Masquerade, which brings collectively PC traditional Minesweeper with BBC’s new gameshow The Traitors.
The Infernal Masquerade is a gothic horror, PS2-inspired recreation that duties gamers with unmasking the common friends of an 18th-century masked ball, whereas pinning roses on these they believe are vampires.
Each appropriate unmasking reveals clues and, in line with the Steam itemizing, “taking dangers and doing speedy reveals provides you entry to helper objects that make it simpler to seek out the hidden, masked vampires.”
Try a video of the sport in motion under:
“The 12 months is 1868, and the town of London is within the grip of a wierd and lethal plague. Persons are disappearing from the streets, by no means to be seen once more, and rumors of vampires have begun to unfold like wildfire,” says the Steam description.
“Within the midst of this chaos, a solitary determine strikes via the darkness, a hunter of the undead. Armed with a novel weapon – a bouquet of lethal roses that may kill with a single contact – the vampire hunter stalks the shadows, in search of out the hidden predators that lurk among the many metropolis’s elite,” it continues.
“Tonight, the hunter has been invited to a masquerade ball, a glittering affair attended by the wealthiest and strongest members of society. However beneath the guise of revelry and magnificence, the hunter is aware of that hazard lurks. For at a masquerade, even essentially the most extraordinary faces can disguise essentially the most monstrous secrets and techniques. And the hunter is able to strike, utilizing their lethal roses to ship justice to the vampires that prowl the night time.”
The Infernal Masquerade was initially developed for the 2022 Haunted PS1 Halloween Game Jam and is at present obtainable to obtain totally free, from itch.io. Additionally it is “coming quickly” to Steam.
In different information, Steam logged 10million concurrent in-game gamers for the primary time over the weekend.