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I may not have been born in the '80s, but its aesthetic has endured so well I can both instantly recognise it and feel right at home. Deep, bold colours, wild hair, and camp, schlocky horror are all staples of the decade that I adore, even though I'm bald now. Upcoming revenge sandbox Gone Feral trades the hairdos for animal masks and pops you right into an old-school straight-to-VHS B-movie.
In the game's world premiere trailer just revealed on the PC Gaming Show, we get a glimpse at the bloody voxel action on offer. It doesn't get bogged down in the details. You're on a quest for revenge and now it's time to get to killing—so go get. Don't worry about why you were betrayed, just kill that cop and put on his uniform as a disguise so you can get closer to those who wronged you.
It's all a bit Hitman, which should be music to the ears of anyone twiddling their thumbs while they wait for IO to get back to the shiny-headed assassin. You can distract NPCs by throwing items, kick them off of ledges they have no business standing so close to, and you can use just about anything as a weapon, from boomboxes to turkey legs—have you seen the size of those things? That plus the animal masks also add a wonderful Hotline Miami feel to Gone Feral, but these levels are bigger, more open sandboxes that you can think and play around in rather than tight puzzles to be solved with quick reflexes.
What's striking about the game aside from the lush colours are the decidedly '90s Tarantino-esque spurts of blocky voxel blood that shoot out of the necks of the unfortunate NPCs who get in our unnamed protagonist's way. What's more, you'll be able to do this all in singleplayer or online co-op, which is going to make coming up with clever kills all the more fun when Gone Feral hits digital shelves. When that'll be, we don't know just yet. But fear not, it's being made by Just Purkey Games, run by Nathan Purkeypile, a 14-year Bethesda alum who worked on Fallout 3, 4, 76, Skyrim, and Starfield, so you know he's got the credentials.
If you want to keep up with Gone Feral, wishlist it on Steam now and sign up for the playtest.
