“Paranormal Tales” New Indie Horror Game Featuring Bodycam Footage Announced, Game Features Revealed

Developer Horror Cam Committee and publisher Joure have announced their new indie horror game, titled “Paranormal Tales.” Paranormal Tales is a found-footage style experience where players must find their dog, Teddy, in an ominous dark forest. What’s interesting here is, the gameplay looks to be from a “bodycam” perspective, which gives it a more “real” (and frightening) vibe.

Watch the announcement trailer below:

Paranormal Tales notes 2014’s P.T. as a direct inspiration, but the supernatural enemy seen in the trailer is oddly reminiscent of The Ring’s legendary antagonist Samara Morgan. Players experience the world of Paranormal Tales through a bodycam with a fish-eye lens, and the compressed audio and visual artifacts heighten the subliminal danger of the game’s hyper-realistic forest setting. The developers plan to add accessibility options for those with motion sensitivity, as the bodycam-footage format can be nausea-inducing for many people.

From the game’s Steam page:

You likely won’t make it to the end of the footage – you must play it out for yourself and experience horror from a truly unsettling perspective.

• Multiple Found Footage Scenarios

  Various video files have been obtained by the Horror Cam Archives committee. Each file is a self-contained experience where you get to explore what happened to the people who have recorded these files. Are you able to survive each found footage file?

• Exploration

  Explore various locations, whom all tell greatly different stories for the player to experience.

• Body-cam Styled Gameplay

  Experience the world from the viewpoint of a body-cam. Including auditory and visual effects to complete the immersion.

• Hyper Realistic Environments

  The game is developed with a sense of hyper-realism to create a visually stunning and memorable experience powered by Unreal Engine 5.

Jump Scares – Yes
Nervous Breakdowns – Yes
Anxiety – Yes
Spiders – Maybe

The game can be wishlisted now on Steam, but does not have a release timeframe as of yet. For more information, early fans can join the official Discord, and can also support the development of the game through the developer’s Patreon.

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