Announced during the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted event, darkwebSTREAMER is an upcoming horror game that blends this genre with RPG elements. Namely, you take on the role of a person who wants to become a popular streamer whose content focuses on unboxing, however, it won't be electronics or anything like that, but haunted boxes he finds on the internet. You will very often be shown strange dolls and boxes full of worms on your screen, and the only way to increase the viewership is to become more extreme.
Chantal Ryan, designer and co-founder of indie studio We Have Always Lived In The Forest, described the game like this to PC Gamer: “Your viewers won't be impressed if you just say, here's a doll! Here is the same doll every day..." The game motivates us to dive deeper into the dark web in search of new cursed objects and rituals. This games dark web is made up of old guestbook sites, rants, and bird conspiracy theories.
The internet in darkwebSTREAMER is also procedurally generated. An endless internet space of strange people to befriend, occult secrets to discover, different websites, items, recipes to craft and dodgy things to buy. As already mentioned, the game contains RPG management and simulation elements where you will be able to manage your skills, social statistics, money, viewers, subscribers, relationships, etc.
Additionally, this game is shaped by completely random encounters; events, characters, histories, and outcomes deliver a story that is created in response to your actions, whether those in the world or around you. Also, co-founder Ryan promises superior artificial intelligence that will also be reflected in NPCs. Each inhabitant of the dark web has its own uniquely generated vocabularies, speaking styles, opinions, backstories, web pages, statistics and more, using AI technology based on anthropology and linguistic theory.
Viewers won't just be observers, as darkwebSTREAMER will include Twitch integration that encourages the audience to act as if everything is real: “With this Twitch integration, we want to create the impression that everyone is a participant in this game. Viewers can take on roles in the chat or become NPCs in the game,” says Ryan. Whether you play darkwebSTREAMER as a streamer, spectator, or on your own, the idea is that it will give you enough interconnected events and characters to weave together into a personal story.
DarkwebSTREAMER will be available on Steam and itch.io.
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