In the abstruse monsters of the game, screaming is much easier.
At the thousands of horror games on Steam you could think that everything has already been done before. But then a creative indie developer comes around the corner and once again proves the opposite.
In this case, it is about the Japanese developer C-Route, who has introduced a logical, yet completely new combat system with Threat: Scream and Escape. As a weapon, neither a double -barreled shotgun nor your concentrated fist serves you, but also Simply your voice.
Scream and run away
That's what it's about: Threat: Scream and Escape is a first-person horror game in which you have to awaken in a research system contaminated with gruesome monsters and escape alive. Now, however, you are not a top -trained special agent and cannot fall back on your martial arts to even make it out to the enemies.
Instead, you are equipped with the most terrible voice north (and south) of the equator and can paralyze the monsters by simply screaming and then running away. The previous sentence is meant literally, because it is not your game character, but to you, in your domestic microphone.
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Threat: Scream and Escape lets you shout monster and warns of complaints from your neighbors
Not for the old building: However, the monsters seem to get used to your voice over time, because the further you progress in the game, the more you have to maltreat your sound recording device – and the ears of your neighbors. This is how the developer also writes in this regard on steam: Be careful not to get any complaints from your neighbors!
It should also be one Silent-Mode
give you probably less loud or not at all in your microphone. However, keep in mind that the core element of the game is defused or even removed. In addition, it is not yet clear how quiet you can actually be and whether you will not be heard anyway towards the end.
Release in a few days
Like C-Route via x has announced, Threat appears: Scream and Escape am 3. April 2025 via Steam. There you can already add the horror game to your wish list. How much you have to pay for the download is not yet known.
A few days ago, our editor Natalie Schermann already tested another unusual horror game, which is also reminiscent of reality TV format Big Brother and George Orwell's dystopian novel “1984”. You can find the detailed test in the box above.
