From our friends at Painted Black Studios, Dnipro, Ukraine:

"At first look, The Long Reach is an adventure game but closer inspection also reveals it's a thrilling horror story, flavoured with sci-fi ideology, psychological context and a sceptical view on the human psyche.

The Long Reach takes place in New Hampshire, in the fictional town of Baervox. The game draws its inspiration from Lone Survivor and The Cave and all the classical adventures (except that The Long Reach is set in the present day). You don't play in a post-apocalyptic world or explore a fairy-filled fantasy world. You're in the thick of it, just around the corner from the place where you buy your groceries.

· The Long Reach is a horror-thriller hell bent on screwing with your perception of things.

· The game misuses stunning pixel art to create gruesome and unsettling images.

· You'll be playing as Calvin throughout the game - this is an example of the lies and deception that we have in store for you.

· You won't be forced to figure everything out. Escape if you wish, in fact, we encourage you to run for your life!

· Solve puzzles that require thinking outside the box. The box provided by our publisher was never used during the development.

· You'll be able to talk with plenty of characters. In fact, you'll have a chance to pitch in every five lines or so.

· A classic adventure game inventory filled with keys and weird stuff (note: no Elvish swords glowing faintly blue when evil is close in this game).

· Original atmospheric and haunting soundtrack. The composer's not right in the head, he brought weird stuff home to use in the soundtrack. We're all concerned for his cat.

About Painted Black Games.

Painted Black Games is a young Ukrainian game dev studio. There are four of us and we’re making our first joint game - an adventure thriller The Long Reach. The creating process started in 2015. The creation of Painted Black Games wasn’t an accident. It was the only logical result of people passionate about creating games meeting each other.

If you have any questions, please, contact us the convenient way:

https://www.facebook.com/TheLongReach/

https://twitter.com/TheLongReach

Kind regards,

Painted Black Games team."

Additional information can be found at: http://thelongreachgame.com/

Oh, this sounds right up my alley Thanks for posting, Trail. I'm going to go check it out.

Thanks for the info, Trail_Mystic. Will go look at the trailer

I don't know about this one... seems way to pixely for me.

It is very close to the old 16 bit games of C64 yore. I'm assuming that either they are going for the retro feel or because they are just starting out, don't have the resources to jump into the more advanced game engines yet.

I still play the old D&D Forgotten Realms games from that time period. Got to love that tinny midi-music and pixely fade effects. Doesn't bother me if the story is really good.

Yeah, I don't mind a little bit of it, but this just seems kind of "in your face" pixely. I'm playing Abe's Oddysee which is an ancient pixely game right now.

That sounds like it would hurt. Ow! I got a pixel in me eye!

Ha, ha!! INCOMING!!!

Thanks, Trail.

I'm not a horror person, but I'm glad to see new games coming out.

You can now download a free demo on the Steam store page Here.
Thanks so much for the news, Trail!


Ana

Thanks, Ana

I don't play keyboard controlled games.

Looks horrific