This is a complete playlist of every time kuoushi played It Sleeps Below The Haar, but available in a playlist format. Enjoy just letting the whole series run without having to click anything! Hours of kuoushi, direct to your brain.
Cosmic horror? In my “cosmic storm zone”?
It Sleeps Below The Haar is a short indie horror game with minimal (none?) jump scares, choosing unsettling atmosphere instead. It’s also Scottish. There’s a Doric dictionary right inside the game.
The story follows a geologist coming in to study some interesting rocks in a small Scottish village. You’re basically stuck there for a few days as the Haar (fog) is too thick to leave, but you have work to do anyway. Drilling, diving, spelunking. You know, normal geologist stuff. Oh, but don’t walk into the cosmic storm zone. Honestly, there’s a lot of lore in the game, which is nice for people who want to dive into the atmosphere. I read a good amount of it, but the errant typos can make the Scottish accent hard to read. Might just be me, though.
I wish there was more to do in the game. There’s a lot, but I feel like there was more to do in the world. More to explore. This is more me telling the dev we like it and want more, though. As it is, you walk around to explore, but there don’t seem to be any real “quests” aside from a couple of side quests and then the main story. There’s a lot of people to talk to, but mostly you just talk to them.
The analog horror aesthetic is nice, and the FMV cutscenes worked well with the retro gameplay. Make sure to use the witch stone to enjoy the visuals there, you might might them and that’d be a shame. I don’t really remember anything on the music side, but nothing really sounded odd or bad. Fit pretty well.
Honestly, the most I can say in this review is that I kind of liked it and I want more.
