I stumbled across this one while scoping out the <u>Quebec Games Celebration</u> this week, and the weirdness of the art immediately had me hooked. Horripilant is an incremental dungeon crawler (which I THINK is a fancy way of not saying “Roguelite”), with a strange pixel art style that also somehow manages to feel like hand painted ink nightmares with a dot matrix vibe. Yeah, it’s a lot. Pulling from classic dungeon crawlers, this one looks super weird and delightful.
Worth mentioning that there is a demo for this one on Steam, but I haven’t had a chance to play it myself yet.
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This looks like it was inspired by Vermis.
I never really got into game books, but yeah this looks pretty rad!
Vermis is weirder than that. It’s a guide/art book full of lore for a game that doesn’t exist. Very cool stuff.
There’s a video from supereyepatchwolf getting into the fake game rabbithole that talks about Vermis for a while :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hkkCbxoaz0