#reverse horror

Aliza, the human in Horrortale, is a pretty frail and weak child. She can't really do much to keep herself alive without just retrying and making a better decision. She's stuck in a world that wants her dead, and the only reason she's alive is because she can try again and again.

So, that got me thinking. What would a reverse horror Horrortale be like?

I imagine the premise would likely be very similar, post-neutral, dystopian underground, same kinda stuff.

But the human cannot load, only reset. And hasn't eaten since the day before they fell into the underground.

A human dies quite often in Horrortale, and there's no shortcut for this one, no load, no save point. Just a reset.

Every.

Single.

Time.

And if there's one thing I know that happens to a human who suffers, it's that they get desperate.

They lose their restraints, and their impulses become harder to ignore.

The hunger gnaws every time they wake up, the need to eat something, the desperation to act.

* Their PATIENCE falters.

* Their PERSEVERANCE twists sickeningly.

* Their ENDURANCE cracks under the weight of their NEEDS.

* They become filled with DEPRAVITY.

First chapter:

Tendril: Echo Received is a a pixel art Sci-Fi reverse horror stealth action game inspired by Ridley Scott's Alien & the Cthulhu mythos!

Sequel please... Pretty please... I need to see my favorite amalgamation of anomalous flesh again :3

(This is a Pixelated Reverse Horror game- in game footage below, tw blood and body horror)

Cryptid Laboratory : Page 16

For everyone who ever wanted to BE the monster, Carrion is the perfect game! I fell in love with this worm pile the moment he bit someone in half.

Stage 1: Murder everything. I am the monster.

Stage 2: I don't really need to kill and eat the unarmed humans unless I've lost health. I'll leave them around as Screaming medkits.

Stage 3: It gets lonely backtracking to areas where I previously murdered everything. I'll only kill the unarmed humans if I'm low on health. Guys with weapons will die for safety reasons.

Stage 4: I'm sorry, human I crushed accidentally. I'm a large mass of meat, teeth and tentacles. I will move carefully to prevent the lost of more live- WILL YOU STOP SHOOTING ME GUYS! I'M TRYING TO MOURE TOM'S PASSING!

Stage 5: (lifts last human on to safe ground) Okay, now you're all safe while I kill the dangerous morons with guns. Anne, would you kindly stop trying to climb down the ladder. I'm trying to keep you alive.

Stage 6 (Last Part): Hello Fellow Humans.

I just finished Carrion yesterday. I adore the game! It has ‘The Thing’ vibes, so if you like that (or just alien monsters in general) go get it. Sad it was very short tho: 4-5 hours of gameplay normally, but if you’re like me who doesn’t have a good sense of direction you will probably spend an extra hour or two just getting lost, since there is no map system in the game.

That’s why I decided to make my own map, haha. I know there are probably maps available from guides online or whatever but it felt like cheating if I do that, so I just draw my own. I’ll be posting this for safekeeping in case someday I decided to replay it <3