If you’re a fan of tinyBuild and Scythe Dev Team’s fast food horror cooking sim Happy’s Humble Burger Farm, the team has a treat for you with their follow-up to their first-person horror game, Northbury Grove. Not only is Return to Northbury Grove, Scythe’s new immersive VR horror title, available today on Steam, it’s also available for free!
Return to Northbury Grove puts players in the virtual shoes of Liam Murphy, an aspiring actor who’s looking to land the role of a lifetime at the infamous Rock the Warehouse music festival. However, after arriving at the concert grounds, Liam ends up kidnapped and thrown into the basement of the Spector Forest Slasher’s infamous killing house. Now, Liam must use his wits and bravery to survive the various traps within the house and escape with his life.
The title is an obvious love letter to the slasher genre that requires you to practice stealth in order to avoid catching the ire of the Spector Forest Slasher. Not only are you required to keep an eye (and ear) out all around you, but the game is 100% physically simulated, requiring you to keep from bumping into anything that might cause unwanted noise. Your choices while you try to escape also matter. You’ll have to make decisions that impact your survival in real-time.
To add even more replay value, Return to Northbury Grove features adaptive AI, making no two playthroughs the same, with the killer adapting to your actions in real-time. There are also modifiers that you can unlock by beating the game to add even more challenge. That also includes something called “Happy the Humble Heifer”.
And if you’re keen on checking out the previous game in the series, you can download Northbury Grove from the team’s itch.io page.
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