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Toronto-based game designer and teacher Benjamin Rivers (@BenjaminRivers) (and co-founder of indie studio Bancy Co (@bancyco)) is partnering with the newly acquired Limited Run Games to release their games Being Home, Alone with You and Worse Than Death as part of one physical collection on Nintendo Switch.
Read More2019 action-adventure horror game Worse Than Death is getting a sequel in the form of a comic book written and drawn by Benjamin Rivers (@benjaminrivers) with chapter one available now.
Read MoreWorse Than Death, Benjamin Rivers latest, was already released on iOS earlier this year and now we have a release date for the console and PC release. On October 8th, the game will come out on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Steam, and the Humble Store.
Read MoreBenjamin Rivers, the indie developer behind Home and Alone With You announced Worse Than Death earlier this year, and now, in a celebration of Canada Day you can play the game on iOS right now.
😱🇨🇦 HAPPY #CANADADAY! 🇨🇦😱#WorseThanDeath is now available worldwide in the @AppStore! It's an action-adventure #horror mystery that you can play at the cottage — or anywhere!https://t.co/At08N4qVmy
— Benjamin Rivers (@BenjaminRivers) July 1, 2019
Try not to jump — we dare you! pic.twitter.com/55fHZKoxBZ
WORSE THAN DEATH is a scary, emotional thriller about a high school reunion that goes horribly wrong. As Holly runs for her life, desperate to rescue her best friend Flynn from a terrible force that's hunting them both, she must survive unexpected truths about her home town, her friends, and even herself.
The game is still expected to come to PlayStation 4, Switch, and Steam and considering the game is obviously finished, hopefully we don’t have to long to wait. You can download Worse Than Death on iOS right here for $5.49 CAD.
Benjamin Rivers, the developer behind 2012’s Home, and 2016’s Alone With You has announced his latest - Worse Than Death, for PlayStation 4, Switch, Steam, and iOS. The game will be an emotional thriller about a high school reunion that goes horribly wrong.
“Run for your life, hide in the shadows, and use your wits to avoid terrible enemies and solve a mystery that sees you trapped in your home town.
Worse Than Death fuses a page-turning, pulp horror story with action-adventure gameplay.”
A scary, emotional thriller about a high school reunion that goes horribly wrong! Worse Than Death is the chilling follow-up to indie horror hit Home, and it's coming soon to PlayStation 4! + OFFICIAL Website: http://www.worsethandeathgame.com + Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/benjaminrivers Rated Mature: Intense Violence, Blood and Gore, Sexual Themes, Drug Reference
We don’t have a release date yet, but we’re told it will be soon. In the meantime, you can hit up the developers Discord channel to catch a prequel story, and vote on what happens next!
Excited for #WorseThanDeath? Then boy do we have news for you.
— Benjamin Rivers 💀 GDC (@BenjaminRivers) February 20, 2019
Join the official @discordapp server to read an exclusive prequel story — and even vote on what happens! We're writing and illustrating it from now until launch!
👉 https://t.co/uO70wFB5Ma#horror #indiegame pic.twitter.com/JtIU58QY4m
Canadian indie game studio Red Meat Games have released their episodic, narrative-driven audio game Project Dark on Steam and Nintendo Switch.
Achimostawinan Games have released their Indigenous cybernoir detective narrative adventure game Hill Agency: PURITYdecay for Steam and itch.io.
Toronto-based indie powerhouse Vagabond Dog is releasing a physical copy of their cult classic 2014 RPG maker title Always Sometimes Monsters in partnership with Limited Run Games.
Toronto-based Siege Camp (@SiegeCamp)’s massively multiplayer war game Foxhole has finally left early access on Steam after five years.
Montréal-based Red Barrels (@TheRedBarrels) will be running a closed beta this upcoming Halloween weekend for their third full release in their Outlast franchise- The Outlast Trials, a co-op multiplayer survival-horror game set to release on PC at some time in the future.
Toronto-based not-for-profit Hand Eye Society has released a second Mixtape on itch.io- an “anthology” of “some games we think you'll really like.”
Backbone, the post-noir narrative adventure game where you play as a raccoon private eye Howard Lotor released on Steam earlier this year and is now heading to PlayStation, and Xbox next week on October 28th.
Mobile Indie hit My Singing Monsters will be heading to consoles later this year in November, in the form of a 4-player party game. Big Blue Bubble, who released Forgone on consoles last year, also has a Kickstarter currently going (and funded) for a My Singing Monsters board game.
Kitchener-based indie studio Fluxscopic Ltd (@FluxscopicLtd), with American publisher Tiny Build (@tinyBuild), have released action-adventure game Mayhem in Single Valley on PC storefronts.
One of our favourites on iPhone, and Nintendo Switch is now heading to PC via the Epic Game Store. Grindstone, the Capybara Games hit also recently received a new Daily Grind mode and Fortune Grind on both Nintendo Switch and Apple Arcade, the Epic Game Store version is out tomorrow.
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