Garden Variety Body Horror, a 90's styled survival-horror has Linux support

Posted by Liam Dawe, 5 December 2018 at 9:57 am UTC | Views: 4,855

Here's one we missed that released. Garden Variety Body Horror, a 90's styled survival-horror that acts as a sequel to Prototype Mansion released with Linux support.

When they say 90's, they're not kidding. It looks like a game that would have fit in well on something like the original PlayStation.

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Their feature list made me chuckle:

Japanese dubs and English subs
Classic style survival-horror gameplay -> tank controls optional
32-bit low-poly visuals, janky models
Campy humor, gore galore, FOG.
Puzzles of the cryptic kind

It's quite interesting to see such games make a small comeback lately, we have a lot of retro-styled and inspired games, but the majority end up being platformers. There's a lot of charm, at least I think so, for a 3D style like this which I think can get lost somewhere with games pushing for the most realistic visuals possible now.

Available from itch.io and Steam.

Thanks for the reminder, NuSuey.

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cprn 5 December 2018 at 2:52 pm UTC

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First Alone in the Dark feeling. Crap, I think I like it. Depends whether it's casual enough. I'm not sure, though, if such low resolution will be playable on big 4k screen.

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razing32 5 December 2018 at 5:55 pm UTC

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Seems self aware enough.
Probably some campy humor as well.
Why not ?

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