HomeNewsKnifePlayground: Horror Battle Royale
KnifePlayground is an Unreal horror royale with bodycam combat, demon clowns and a shapeshifting mansionElevator pitch
Elevator pitch
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Image credit:MadMozer
Image credit:MadMozer
The game also mimics straight-to-VHS B-movies with a staticky curved CRT overlay and a trailer commentator who has terrible laryngitis. The mansion itself is a work of John Wicky purple lighting and ornamental plaster fittings. And then there’s the melee combat: it reminds me a little of my old favouriteCondemned: Criminal Origins, with cutaway finishing moves (yes, “cutaway” in several senses) reminiscent of Rockstar’s Manhunt.
The battle royale component’s emphasis on racing to the elevator could make every round a series of chaotic corridor brawls, but there’s some incentive to hang back and pick your moment: you’ll need to search floors for weapons such as pistols, chainsaws, shotguns and fireaxes, together with arcade claw machines that appear to bestow upgrades. It’s not clear how extensive the game’s randomisation is: will map layouts themselves change, or just weapon drops and puzzle locations?
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“KnifePlayground is our first big and mature project, and after years of learning and experience, we have a well-prepared team to face all the challenges ahead,” the developers write on Steam. Their previous games include the relatively cuddly (and pretty well-received) single-screen arena shooterPiraCrash, in which you play a fiesty rubber duck with a popgun. Things have certainly escalated.
