white knuckle demo

i just happened on the demo to this game yesterday, and i've immediately become obsessed. i literally can't stop playing it. my wrist hurts. for the love of god please help me

white knuckle is a speed climbing horror game, with one of my favorite video game tropes: facility escape. half life, portal, the octo expansion after a point--god i love being in a place and trying to escape it. and maybe there's a whole world of crazy parkour games out there i just don't know about, but personally, i've never seen anything like this game. some aspects of it remind me of boneworks and make me intrigued in a vr version of it, but i also know (via my experience with boneworks) it would make me INCREDIBLY nauseous if it was vr, so maybe this is for the best....i'd totally still give it a shot if it was vr though.

here's a clip of me having a great time:

again, maybe i'm just a newbie to some big game genre i completely missed out on, but man, it's a refreshingly difficult game! even the tutorial itself was pretty tough, for me at least. it's definitely one of those games where you just keep throwing yourself at it until finally things start clicking, you start getting the fine mechanics down, and you slowly uncover better paths as you go. the progression of each silo is shuffled every run, so the map doesn't get dull as you go, plus there's different sections you can progress through in the facility--i mean, this is a big goddamn demo! i'd have completely accepted this as a totally finished product, personally, and since it's a demo right now, IT'S FREE!!! check it out!!!!

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4:00pm 11/10/2024