It's like a next-step training programme. Developer: Tequila Works, Parallel Circus.Gylt is also polished and plays well, as you'd expect, and as an avowed disliker of mannequins I was consistently spooked despite being old enough to buy my own hard lemonade. It's never made explicit, showing a lightness of touch that's lacking in most games aimed explicitly at grown adults who have conspiracy theory boards about Twin Peaks. Like Tequila Works' previous game Rime, the literal explanation for what's happening in Gylt (and the identity of the old man helping Sally out as she tries to save Emily) is only ever hinted at. It being aimed more at kids also doesn't mean that you, an adult, wouldn't enjoy it anyway. It might be linear and obvious to me, a hardened player with a thousand yard stare from all the hours playing Fromsoft games and reviewing Resi 7, but this is a technically non-violent game where you zap shadow monsters with a torch in order to save your cousin from nightmare versions of school bullies! And it's pretty great at that, you know? Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/Tequila Works This is a game that feels squarely directed at children - not six-year-olds, of course, but kids in that sort of grey, pre-teen area. But I also don't think it's really aimed at survival horror veterans, or even adults at all. This could mean that for experienced survival horror veterans, or even games in general, Gylt could be disappointingly easy. There are also optional collectibles to find that include baby's first text logs, but none of them are very far off the beaten track at all. You can sneak behind some enemies to do instant stealth takedowns, engage in boss fights that are largely just timed stealth segments, and you get a recharging stun attack and a fire extinguisher to open up traversal options around environmental hazards. The reason why this is Alan-Wake-for-kids, though, is because these monsters have the smarts of a bag of spanners, to put it bluntly, and batteries for your torch (which only drain when you focus it for attacks) and inhalers to refill your health are stashed by an extremely generous hand around the school and adjacent buildings you explore.

They are not unlike the ones you find in Alan Wake. The monsters come in a few variants that include 'invisible', 'cow', and 'terrifying mannequins' of oneself. Sally has few defences save creeping around and shining a powerful torch at the monsters, who don't like strong li- hey, now my title makes sense! One autumnal evening, Sally gets lost and tries to take the old mining cable car back home - only to discover herself in a weird mirror version of her home town, derelict and abandoned save for shadowy monsters, the likes of which you'd find as models in Forbidden Planet in a cabinet labelled 'From The Mind Of Tim Burton'. You play as Sally, a young girl whose even younger cousin Emily has gone missing. You can avoid being detected by creatures, you can build strategies to distract them, through sound or visual lures or by attracting them.Until recently, Gylt (look, stay with it) was confined to Google's cloud gaming platform Stadia, but Stadia doesn't exist any more, so this third-person stealth adventure is being unleashed on Steam.Decide to either face the creatures or hide from them, in the same way you’d face or hide your fears.Get to understand the world surrounding and discover the mystery behind Emily’s disappearance.After being chased by a group of bullies, Sally is dragged into a twisted version of her town where her fears and worse memories are presented in a wicked and very real way. Her life is not easy, and it has become even worse since her little cousin Emily disappeared. Live the story of Sally, a little girl living in Bethelwood. GYLT is a narrative adventure game with puzzles, stealth and action, set in a fictional old mining town in the state of Maine. Hide from terrible creatures or confront them as you find your way through the challenges of this wicked world. Set in a creepy and melancholic world, GYLT is an eerie story mixing fantasy and reality in a surrealist place where your nightmares become reality. GYLT is a puzzle adventure video game developed and published by Tequila Works.

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