Ensk Studio has announced a new post-Soviet survival game called Evil Next Door, which focuses on a group of civilians stuck in a post-Soviet town, and disconnected from the outside world because of a deadly disease outbreak
The game has been announced for PC and will release via Steam. Watch the game reveal trailer below:
https://youtu.be/Uw3EaVZJ0Hw
In Evil Next Door, players will be able to switch between several characters, gather food and fuel resources, and defend themselves from the marauders to ensure the survival of the group. However, the end goal is also to find freedom and escape from Ensk. You will also run into or encounter other players online where you can intervene in their activities or invite them to take cover in your shelter.
The group is stuck in a small town called Ensk, right at the center of a mysterious epidemic that has turned humans into bloodthirsty lunatics. With scientists still looking for a cure, the government has enforced strict quarantine, holding the people captive in their own town.
Ways leaving out of the city are blocked by soldiers, with the shoot on sight orders. The inhabitants of the town make use of any resources they can find from food and fuel reserves.
With the ability to control many characters, it will be up to you to determine how to use each character’s strength to motivate the team and for the survival of the whole group. Decisions will matter a lot as any character’s death will be permanent.
Game director Jigsaw had this to say about their new game,
Most survival games are about action-heroes as this approach allows us to feel stronger than we really are. But this power fantasy of playing as Bear Grylls, Rambo or Ed Stafford is quite artificial and lacks any real emotional journey of a survivor. It’s much more interesting and authentic to follow a story of someone like Juliane Koepcke who has no superpowers or bushcraft skills. In our case we chose an urban setting as it is even closer to what people know and understand. It’s quite easy and thrilling to immerse in a story about common folk that live peacefully in a rural town until someday their world was crushed cruelly and instantly by an external force like a natural disaster, a war or an epidemic. It’s something that we’re afraid of in real life
Our characters are someone you understand in a situation that you can easily imagine, so you will be able to make decisions based on your own knowledge, common sense and moral compass. That will make our game a great generator of really emotional and convincing stories.
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