Unhomely
A downloadable game for Windows
Unhomely is a retro-inspired first person psychological indie horror game. You play a journalist who has 3 days alone in a reclusive tech CEO's cabin to get the exclusive on his new project and save your career.
In the remote wilderness of New Zealand, a beautiful forest cabin hides an unspeakable horror this billionaire doesn't want you to find.
YOUR NEXT BIG STORY!
You are Blair Ward — a down on her luck journalist chasing a once in a lifetime opportunity - is it too good to be true?
After over a year hidden from the public eye, reclusive tech CEO Tom Ballinger, pioneer of revolutionary "fungus powered" technology, has invited YOU to his isolated estate in the New Zealand wilderness for an exclusive interview and a glimpse of his next big project.
Away at a conference, he allows you to stay in his woodland cabin, all alone... Though he won't stop texting you strange requests...
Gameplay
- Investigate - Explore Ballinger's cabin, taking photos with your phone and documenting discoveries on your clue board.
- Unravel - Follow the clues and slowly unravel the mystery of Tom's "innovative" mycelial technology and his strange behaviour.
- Expose - Find out the truth behind his next big project, and expose it for the world to see... if you can make it out alive.
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For what this demo was, it was not too bad! Well put together plot so far and great story building. And the feeling of being watched adds to it as well as we explore the airbnb/cabin. Only issue I had with this game was sometimes grabbed objects would get stuck on door frames, so I technically didn't have the item anymore to do an objective. I had to find where the item got stuck and get it unstuck. The items should have their collisions turned off after being picked up to avoid this issue. Another issue was this game seemed to have an issue with the frame rate. It felt like it was running fairly low and seemed to drop lower at certain points and for a PSX style game that is pretty bad. It suggests that there is wonky optimization going on. Apart from those 2 things I had a great time with this demo! Made a video on it.
So some of you may be wondering is this an honest mistake or a goof. Its not, Montack does this thing often enough its pretty clearly on purpose... but you don't need to take my word for it, clicking on thier name on this post will take you on over to their recent posts.
My only constructive feedback would be that the controls for the phone with right clicking can get a bit fiddly, and reading Blair's text whilst trying to read the phone can also get a little overwhelming. Maybe have Blair say something after the player has put the phone down?
Apart from that, I'm intrigued by the concept and look forward to the full release. Hope this blows up with Steam's Next Fest!
I played this demo on my Youtube channel and honestly it was a fun demo, im intrigued by the story and I definitely will check out the full release.