"Stasis" Stirs From A Long Slumber, Launches Kickstarter With 2014 Release Date

For the past three years, adventure game fans and horror enthusiasts alike have eagerly anticipated news surrounding Stasis, a sci-fi survival horror point-and-click action game with painstakingly crafted environments and an engrossingly terrifying atmosphere. The love child of sole indie developer Chris Bischoff, Stasis has long been a promising new title that suffered from little hope of actually being released. That is, until now.

Bischoff has finally unveiled the game's new revamped website, complete with new media, developer diaries, countdown clock for a Kickstarter funding push, and a tentative release date of mid-2014! After playing Planescape - Torment earlier this year, I'm couldn't be hungrier for some more isometric point-and-click madness. Check out the new website, as well as one of the game's creepy promotional teasers above. You've come this far Bischoff, let's bring it on home.

Worth Checking Out: Darkwood

Growing up I began to build a strong relationship with the horror genre, from movies to games. My first memorable experience comes from the Playstation classic, Resident Evil. Yes, the game was fantastic at creating tense moments no matter the situation, but really stands out in today's gaming world are the restrictive controls. When an enemy attacks, you're not able to hide behind cover, roll, run and shoot or even walk and shoot, instead you were forced to calm your nerves and take aim. Since the recent emergence of "action-horror" I've yet to find a game in the past few years that has forced me to take control of my fear in order to survive, but if the alpha footage of the indie title Darkwood is anything to go by, we're in for a treat.

Darkwood is a top-down, procedurally generated, open-world survival-horror game that seems to put a large emphasis on the survival aspect of the survival-horror genre. Players are pitted against an unknown force, forcing players to always stay on their toes. One tiny mistake can cost you the game, and running for your survival looks like it may provide an even larger threat. Mixed with a crafting system, Darkwood is definitely a game worth keeping an eye on. We'll definitely be keeping you posted for more information, but you can checkout the studio's website over here.