Developer Santa Ragione announced on June 13th that the horror adventure game “HORSES“announced. The corresponding platform is PC, and it is scheduled to be released in 2024.
“HORSES” is a first-person horror adventure game set in a farm. Players will use the summer vacation to work on the ranch for 14 days. According to the farmer’s uncle, this ranch has horses. It’s just that things look weird. There are no horses, but naked humans with horse masks on their heads.
Still, the player will take care of these “horses”. In the trailer, you can see how they harvest carrots in the fields, chop firewood, and ride horses on their shoulders. Also, there are scenes where the “horses” are gathered in a church-like building, and the rancher is beating the “horses” with something like a stick. How did the people here come to this ranch, and why are they living as horses?
The mysterious ranch owner tells the player of a seemingly incomprehensible arrangement, and the player is free to work according to it, or step into the depths of the ranch as his curiosity dictates. . The ranch hides some terrifying secrets that require wise decisions to make, making the gameplay tense and uninterrupted.
One of the features of this work, which adopted monochrome visuals, is that live-action images are inserted everywhere. The trailer shows suggestive live-action footage of the player carrying a seemingly dead “horse” in a wheelbarrow before digging a hole in the ground. It can be seen that such images are prepared for specific actions.
In this work, various events will appear over 14 days, and players aim to survive them. Among them, “new victims” may be born, and this work will be a summer experience that will appear in the dreams of players even after seeing the ending.
Santa Ragione, the developer of this work, is an Italian indie studio that has worked on many unique works such as “FOTONICA” and “Wheels of Aurelia”. About “HORSES”Official sitehas warned that it will contain physical and psychological violence and cruel depictions, as well as expressions such as torture, abuse, sexual assault, and drug abuse, and it seems that the content of the game will be shocking. However, according to the studio, the aim is not to shock the player, but the game incorporates such depictions to explore contemporary themes such as domestic trauma, purism, and personal responsibility under power structures. It is said that there is. By the way, an expression restriction mode for live broadcasters is also available.
HORSES will be released for PC in 2024.
