
That said, Knock-Knock managed to make something similar work, and there might well be more expansive areas in DARQ. They seem suitably claustrophobic from a horror angle, but difficult to read as spaces that'd allow you to do much more than walk left or right. Welcome to the club, hideous thought made manifest, make yourself discomfortable.ĭARQ is a stealthy sort of game, though I'm not quite sure how much space there is for evasion or cowering, given the environments shown in the video. EXUVIAE 2021 Fetal Attraction 2019 - 2021 Horror Vacui 2019 Liquid Dreamers Exhibition 2017. DARQ is a much-praised indie game by Wlad Marhulets, and when GameSpot reviewed it, they specifically highlighted that the ' engrossing visual style and exceptional sound design draw you into the world '. You can find all my playlists on my Spotify. Below is my go-to playlist for music while I draw or paint. Good audio can make all the difference in a horror game and that doll/statue that shrieks, folds backwards and shoots forward like a derailed animatronic is making a beeline toward my own cluster of night-time anxieties. Ash Darq is a Melbourne based, Australian dark visionary artist. It looks lovely, in a horrid sort of way, and it'll be out next year. Darq Darq (stylized as DARQ) is a puzzle - platform adventure game developed by independent studio Unfold Games. Now, Inside is playing at the front of my mind as I watch this new video, and its animations of our poor protagonist sneaking and stumbling. When I first saw footage, almost a year ago, it reminded me of Knock-Knock, Ice-Pick Lodge's haunted nightmare of a game.

The world is unstable, turning around him as he creeps through its various environments, trying to avoid the horrors that are chasing him. DARQ is a horror game about a man trapped inside lucid dreams.
