The Beast Inside Finally Gets a Release Date in New Trailer
As a Kickstarter funded game, developer Illusion Ray Studios has been quite good with providing regular updates on its progress to those who’ve backed it. However this is the first, what I would consider, ‘real news’ essentially since the game was announced – and subsequent update which provided a generous demo for people to play.
Yes, The Beast Inside has finally been given a release date, and it’s very close indeed. Coming 17th October and featuring on PC, we’ll finally get to explore the eerie mystery of this haunted woodland house.
The ‘gimmick’, as it were, when the game was announced was with regards to the game having ‘photo-realistic’ visuals – or as it puts it now on the steam page “a setting achieved with the inclusion of 3D scanned objects” – but while impressive, this isn’t what excited me about the game, but instead the curious time-hopping narrative set in a semi-open world.
The story essentially surrounds the experience of a CIA cryptanalyst who has been stationed at this isolated house in order to try and figure out some military code – the game being set during the Cold War. However, after discovering a diary in the attic, civil war era ghosts start to make themselves known, and our cryptanalyst wants to investigate their significance. You don’t just play during the time of the Cold War, either, and you play as a different character many years ago who’s bound to be significant to what’s going on with the house.
While this looks like prime walking simulator territory, the game describes itself as a survival horror, and if you look deeper there does seem to be action to be had – even boasting the use of a revolver to get out of tricky situations. How much it will lean into this remains to be seen, but the game is suggesting itself to be more than your average jump scare horror title.
Watch the trailer below, and expect a full review of the game here after its release.