A second volume in the Dread X Collection series has been confirmed, meaning we’re in for another dose of indie horror game goodness in the near future.
This announcement comes courtesy of the Dread X publishers on Twitter, who are excited to unleash a follow-up collection to the first one which debuted at the end of May this year. They’re promising a second volume that’s bigger and juicier, whilst presumably still staying true to the quality-over-quantity mantra.
The first Dread X Collection saw participating indie developers (ten in total) creating one mini horror game each within a single week. The premise for the project was to create a game that draws on the infamous exemplar of a horror game P.T. as inspiration. That sounds like something that many devs have been doing since P.T. crashed into our lives six years ago anyway, but the guys behind Dread X wanted their contributors rather to focus on P.T.’s context, rather than content:
The project was a great success, and you can get your hands on the first collection for a stupidly reasonable price on Steam right now.
That was the question posed to 10 brilliant creators. Make a P.T. for the horror project of your dreams. Both a game on its own, and a window into a much larger world. Make it raw. Make it real. Make it a reflection of your own fears. Make it in just 7 days.
The essential concept remains the same with the next Dread X volume, with the following differences:
- There’ll be 12 contributing developers this time They’ll have 10 days instead of 7 to complete the games There’s a new theme - “Lovecrafting” - to replace the whole P.T. thing (although of course, it’s up to each developer what they’ll do with the theme, so a P.T.-Lovecraftian hybrid wouldn’t be off the table)
A great thing about this whole thing is the flexibility around the theme, so we can expect a reasonably wide range of bite-sized horror games in terms of content and style.
Dread X Collection Vol. 2 will be released in early August for PC.
Source: Game Rant
