Nijikuro Games' Horror Adventure Draws on Twilight Syndrome
The pitch is aimed at the specific audience that remembers Human and Spike's late-1990s PlayStation horror adventures, and it is being built to match that look rather than to modernize it.
Reporting from 1 source: Game Spark.
Nijikuro Games is developing an untitled horror adventure game set in the late 1990s, where players explore a town, gather rumors, and close in on the truth behind supernatural phenomena. The developer says the style is heavily influenced by Twilight Syndrome and Yuuyami Doori Tankentai, the late-1990s PlayStation horror adventures from Human and Spike. Backgrounds are rendered in 19-color pixel art to create a nostalgic atmosphere.
The game has a title only in the sense that one is undecided, and Nijikuro Games says production has just begun, so a release is some time off. A Steam release is planned. The developer previously put out Curve Mirror Was Watching (Kābu Mirā wa Miteita) on iOS, Android, and Novel Game Collection, a horror game in a similar register, which gives players something to try in the meantime.
The 19-color backgrounds are the concrete part of the pitch. That is a deliberate limit, and it is the detail the developer is leading with while the project is still early enough that most of it is description rather than footage.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.