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Handily enough it’s also part of summer's Steam Next Fest, which begins today.
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You can try out Gloomwood’s pre-alpha demo on Steam now while you’re waiting for the Early Access period to start.
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The game was first shown at 2020’s PC Gaming Show and meant to enter early access later that year, but we’re finally getting a shot at it this year instead. Watch out for their vision cones, which pop out of their eyes and turn from bright green to red if you’re spotted. You can drop from pretty bloody high up to backstab – brainstab? – enemies. The environments have a lot of appealingly claustrophobic verticality to them, with elevators and dark tunnels you can climb through using ropes. Some nasty looking bear traps are an option if you’re more stealth-minded though. Choose to go loud and you’ve got a selection of swords, shotguns and pistols to find. You can shoot out lights to create shadowy cover for yourself, create distractions by throwing objects to smash windows, and sneak up to pinch keys from enemies. There seems to be a nice, hefty shotgun to tote around too. Gloomwood certainly has worked hard on developing a circa-2000 immersive sim aesthetic, which takes me right back to the good old days. Watch on YouTube Gloomwood has a demo that you can try in this summer's Steam Next Fest.