Darkwood, one hell of a horror game!

Has anyone played this? It's a Steam early access game, just came out on Thursday for 13 bucks. I haven't been this happy with a horror game since Outlast, and Amnesia before that.

It's a top-down open world survival game. You search through the forest during the day for supplies to build weapons, make health items, and barricade your hide-out. At night, all manner of creatures try to break in. I could say more, but let this video show you.

That looks like a top-down version of The Forest. The basic idea is the exact same too.

This is kind of like how Project Zomboid is an isometric DayZ.

A lot of people are comparing it to those games in the Steam community. I haven't played them, so I have no idea how similar they all are, but this one is still freaking me out. I'm thinking of doing a few vidoes to show it off to my friends. They're hesitant to buy.

It's really good for alpha.

I'm not saying it'd be bad. I mean, I love DayZ but I'm still interested in Project Zomboid.

However, I am not interested in The Forest so that's already a thing that is keeping me from getting interested in this one. Looks nice, though. Let's hope they get past the alpha.

Here's a preview I wrote on Rely On Horror.

You're a writer there too? That's amazing Love that site.

I am sir. From time to time. Guess I should have mentioned that in my intro thread. XD

So how does that work exactly? Like, you get paid for it or is it just hobby based? Freelance? Journalist?

I don't think it works quite like writing for Screwattack, at least.

Hahahaha, get paid, I wish. I knew the owner before he moved to RoH on a previous forum known as Hell Descent. I used to write for HD, got busy in life, and came back about last October and he let me start posting articles. I get a few review copies here and there and can make opinion pieces. It helps with exposure to twitter and tumblr, which I mainly use to talk about my books.

Ah, well that's nice. I only write once a year on Screwattack myself, though that's just my own thing and not actually affiliated with them. If this was a free game (or if there was an extensive demo) I would totally feature it on my blog this year