Paratopic
Arbitrary Metric · 2018 · Indie, Horror, Surreal, Adventure, Retro
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About Paratopic
You navigate a surreal fever dream across three intersecting character stories involving smuggling, rare birds, and darker deeds, piecing together a fragmented narrative through cryptic environmental vignettes. This experimental horror game cuts between eerie low-poly locations with an acclaimed dark ambient soundtrack that blurs retro and modern aesthetics to create an unsettling, dreamlike atmosphere in under an hour.
Waypoint
You got caught smuggling VHS tapes across the border, and now there's hell to pay. You want to find an elusive rare bird in the forest and snap its picture. You have to kill a man in the back room of a shady diner.
This is Paratopic, an experimental first-person horror game named by Rock, Paper, Shotgun as one of the best games of 2018, and by FACT mag as having one of the top 10 soundtracks of the year.
- A narrative, horror tinged adventure game that takes you on a journey through a cruel fever dream world.
- Cutting between numerous detailed and varied vignettes, unravel how the stories of three separate characters intersect.
- Explore the detritus of forbidden industry, kill, drive through the night, find yourself in conversation with some very off-kilter individuals.
- A leisurely playthrough should take forty five minutes give or take, with plenty more to discover in the detailed, grimey low polygon environments. Or speedrun it, if you'd prefer.
- Over an hour of gorgeous dark ambient music is used to create our subtly dynamic soundscape. An anachronistic blend of modern and outdated production as glitches and textural pads meet synthesis & sampling akin to a haunted recollection of 90s Unreal Engine soundtracks.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
I had no idea what was happening.2 found this helpful
What in the David Lynch is this? And keep in mind, I say this as a Lynch fan. But real fans know there's a difference between Twin Peaks Lynch, which, for all its abstraction, is at least comprehensible in its fever-dream surrealism, and Mulholland Drive-coded David Lynch, which falls into the "I could watch this film a billion times and still have no earthly idea what the heck is going on" category. Yeah, this game falls squarely into the latter. I know there are contraband VHS tapes and smuggling involved, as well as... well... I don't really know. Entities? Aliens? (Maybe. Don't quote me on that.) Bird-watching, flower Demogorgon-esque monsters... do with that information what you will. The game is very short as well, which is fine, but the worldbuilding and plot development amount to a snack-sized dose of WTF soup.1 found this helpful
yeah like this is ♥♥♥♥ music is good thats it1 found this helpful
Bruh?
One of my favorite games, amazing atmosphere, and works even on a potato
Lynch would def love this
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