Analog Horror

I already wrote a quick explainer on The Consumed. This post is about where it comes from. If you’ve spent any time in the strange corners of the internet over the last ten years (analog horror tapes, Backrooms lore, dead-mall YouTube, vaporwave albums with a Roman bust on the cover), The Consumed will feel like someone gathered all of it into one building and handed you the keys. Literally: you’re the night security guard. ...

Horror games usually give you one goal: survive. The Consumed gives you a shift to finish. Something is in the building with you, and the job still has to get done. Here’s what OTR HVN’s new game is and how it plays, without spoiling what’s waiting for you on each night. The Setting: The Hargrove Galleria The Hargrove Galleria is a dead mall stuck in a year the clock only shows as 20XX. Yellowed marble floors, water-damaged ceiling tiles, buzzing fluorescent tubes, empty kiosks. Most of the merchandise is gone. The mannequins stayed. ...