So there I used to be, alone in a diner with the corpse of a person I’ve by no means met. Before I might get my bearings straight, I heard the police on the scanner saying {that a} homicide had been known as in and they’d be at the diner in 4 minutes. I panicked.
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Before I knew it, the physique was stashed someplace I hoped nobody would discover it. With seconds to spare, I cleaned up my fingerprints, stashed the thriller man’s belongings, and slowly opened the door to greet two officers who had weapons drawn on me.
Just 30 seconds later, I used to be pronounced harmless and allowed to go on my merry outdated approach. Except, I discovered that hiding this man’s corpse was extra enjoyable than I had anticipated and, apparently, the universe was giving me an infinite variety of occasions to replay this situation. It was like the movie Groundhog Day with a touch of Weekend at Bernie’s thrown in for good measure.
If you hadn’t already guessed it, the game is named Hide the Corpse, and it’s accessible on the Meta Quest platform for simply $15. It’ll offer you a number of hours of dark comedy goodness, and PSVR 2 gamers will quickly get to affix in on the enjoyable on August 18 when it launches on the PlayStation Store.
A puzzle game like no different
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Hide the Corpse is form of an elaborate game of reverse hide-and-seek. The game has over half a dozen ranges, every with at least six completely different locations to cover the thriller man Gus’s corpse.
Despite what the subject material may make you assume, Hide the Corpse is a surprisingly family-friendly title that has no foul language, no violence (different than dragging a corpse round, I suppose), and little else which may set off you to cover its existence in entrance of your children.
That, in fact, meant that my son and I spent hours laughing till we cried as we struggled to tug round Gus’s insanely heavy corpse with out working into the furnishings in our actual front room. Seriously, it’s a hilariously good time that is assured to make you snicker.
Dragging Gus round is fully physics-based, and since he is speculated to be the weight of a mean full-grown grownup, which means Gus is kind of difficult to maneuver round. Even extra so given that you just solely have 4 minutes to someway carry him to a legit hiding spot and cram him into no matter dimensions mentioned spot permits.
The intro degree takes place in an residence the place you possibly can cover Gus in surprisingly conspicuous locations like the bathtub, the armoire, underneath the mattress, and three different spots I do not wish to destroy. You’d assume the cops would discover him in these locations, however they’re, fortunately, no Sherlock Holmes.
The aim is to simply cover Gus’s corpse from plain sight, a aim that turns into zanier and zanier as you progress by way of the ranges. And I promise that you just by no means realized how heavy a corpse could possibly be in zero gravity till you get to the house degree!
Gus is not the solely object you will want to cover, although. The man someway has a number of of his belongings scattered randomly in every degree, together with his comb, pockets, favourite document (that is 70s themed), driver’s license, and just a few different nicknacks. Each of those additionally must be hidden from plain sight to get the finest rating.
Oh, and do not forget to erase each single one of the fingerprints you left alongside the approach. Seriously, these little blue fingerprints seem on something you have touched, even in the event you did not understand you’d touched it. It’s an virtually overwhelming quantity of stuff to do in simply 4 minutes, but it surely leads to some gratifying gameplay in a brief span.
When the time is up, both at the four-minute mark or whenever you open the door for the cops, you will get graded in your efficiency. I’m undecided who grades somebody on their skill to cover a corpse, however I hope I by no means run throughout them in actual life.
Once you discover sufficient hiding spots in every degree, you will unlock a brand new degree to play in. The eventualities are extremely assorted, starting from the residence you begin in to the diner I spoke of earlier, a zero-gravity house station, an artwork museum, and extra. The newest replace in mid-July added a ton of recent modifiers, together with a heavier Gus and the skill to double the hiding time.
Alone or with associates, it’s a riot
While it’s a single-player game, I discovered it to be the most enjoyable when casting the gameplay to a TV whereas others in the room have been watching. This at all times elicited folks asking to attempt it and then spending a number of periods in the game till somebody pried the headset from their chilly, not-dead palms. Definitely not useless. That solely occurs in the game.
It’s the type of zany, whimsical, distinctive enjoyable that I like seeing from indie builders and a reminder of the late 90s and early 2000s period of gaming, the place nearly any theme or idea might make a game, irrespective of how surreal or ridiculous. Plus, at simply $15, it’s powerful to say no to for just a few incredible hours of leisure with associates and household.