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One game’s end leads to another game’s start in spooky collaborative anthology C.H.A.I.N.G.E.D.A sort-of follow-up to C.H.A.I.N.
A sort-of follow-up to C.H.A.I.N.
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Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Papercookies
C.H.A.I.N.G.E.D. Trailer (2023)Watch on YouTube
C.H.A.I.N.G.E.D. Trailer (2023)
C.H.A.I.N.G.E.D. is a conceptual follow-up to 2020’sC.H.A.I.N, which also stitched together varied shorts from different devs. This time though, the games on offer aren’t strictly confined to haunt ‘em ups, hair-raisers, and sleep-ruiners. There are on-rails shooters. Low-polyAnimal Crossinglookalikes. Marble flinging boss fights against the Antichrist. Third-person sword fights against the Antichrist. (Admittedly there are a lot of ways to kill the Antichrist.) They’re not entirely unrelated to each other, though.
Earth’s genesis or pre-history? Save your daughter or save the timeline? Become the Antichrist or kill the Antichrist? Each choice leads to a new game, but the twist is that the developers were only aware of the games preceding them. Similarly to how the multiverse operates in comics, that means each branch interprets and reinterprets similar themes, characters, and plot points in unique ways, with little consistency, as it should be. Although there are a pocket of threads that do lead to something more definitely ‘canon’.
Games last between a couple of minutes to, at most, 15 minutes. So, even if you stumble across a tape that you don’t enjoy, you’ll surely be done with it in no time.
You can download C.H.A.I.N.G.E.D (or Chronological Haunted Anomalous Interconnected Narrative Guide Each Decision)on Itch, for free.
