Worse Than Death - The Next Game From The Developer Behind Alone With You, and Home
/ Stephen CraneBenjamin 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.”
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!
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