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Devolver's Steam sale is now on, so I'm using it as an excuse to tell you about its brilliant oddball horror adventure Look Outside
Look Outside starts as it means to go on, hinting at a choice and then standing back smirking. The room's dark; strange…
Giant eyeballs bulge from gaping wounds as partygoers continue their endless reverie a few doors down from your apartment; teeth sprout through ruptured skin across the hallway, splitting heads into grotesque smiles; even the paintings have gone rogue a couple of floors below. Despite its jovially cartoonish veneer, Look Outside is a wonderfully, surprisingly grim thing; a smothering, gooey miasma of seeping innards and gut-tightening existential dread that also happens to be a sly, silly, and relentlessly oddball adventure, all the while walking an impressively assured tightrope between humour and horror. Tonally, it's very much its own thing, but if I had to make comparisons, I'd say its combination of oozing retro dread and top-down, turn-based battling feelssomething like the lovechild of Jasper Byrne's cult survival horror hit Lone Survivor and Toby Fox's ode to old-school JRPGs, Undertale.
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