Fresh new horror game set to “decay” in October

Written by Jack Allin — May 13, 2009 at 11:30

Usually a little decay is a bad thing, but a whole lot of decay should be a good thing this fall, when the new horror adventure by the creator of Inherent Evil and Delaware St. John is released.

With production on the Delaware St. John series currently on hold, designer Bryan Wiegele has now co-founded a new team called Wicked Cinder to work on decay. The first-person point-and-click game tells the story of a man named Jacob, whose family died two weeks earlier in a car accident. In his grief, Jacob shuts himself in the lovely home they just recently purchased, only to find that his living nightmare has only begun. As the "walls rot away, rooms that weren't there previously are exposed for Jacob to explore. The more he explores the more he uncovers the blood-soaked history of the house and realizes the truth behind the death of his loved ones. With the house crumbling around him, Jacob must figure out how to protect himself and what's left of his family from a malevolant supernatural force that's been plaguing the house for almost a hundred years."

Wicked Cinder is currently targeting a release in October. In the meantime, a website for the game has already been launched, though currently there's little more than the basic plot outline available.