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Title: Blumhouse Games' Sleep Awake creeps onto Steam and consoles December 2

Link: https://www.engadget.com/gaming/blumhouse-gam...

Confession time: IΓÇÖve had the Sleep Awake Steam page open in a tab for
about a month (hey, we all organize our thoughts in unique and beautiful
ways), just so I donΓÇÖt forget about it. The past year has been stacked with
fabulous original games across a wide range of genres, including horror, and
this is one I didnΓÇÖt want to miss. Now, I can close the tab and put a firm
release date on the calendar, as Sleep Awake is officially due to hit PC,
PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on December 2. Happy holidays, indeed.

Sleep Awake is a first-person, narrative-heavy, psychedelic horror game set
in the last known city on an Earth thatΓÇÖs been ravaged by The HUSH, a
mysterious force that disappears anyone who falls asleep. Katja must stay
alert and survive the city as its citizens experiment on themselves in
increasingly extreme ways, attempting to achieve permanent wakefulness and
outmaneuver The HUSH. Needless to say, things get weird.

Sleep Awake comes from Eyes Out, the studio founded by Spec Ops: The Line
director Cory Davis and Nine Inch Nails guitarist Robin Finck, and itΓÇÖs
published by Blumhouse Games. Finck is responsible for the trippy audio
stylings of Sleep Awake, of course. This is the studioΓÇÖs debut title and
something theyΓÇÖve been working on for four years. Back in 2021, Davis and
Finck told Engadget they were focused on building an ultra-immersive, audio-
driven horror experience with a nightmarish bent.

ΓÇ£The type of horror that we're building has a lot to do with the horrors of
the universe and the horrors that you kind of go to sleep with at night, the
ones that are just around the corner and outside of our purview, but
exist,ΓÇ¥ Davis said. ΓÇ£And the technology for building those types of
soundscapes, the localized audio and reverb and the realism behind that,
coming from VR before, I had a lot of opportunity to work with that stuff.ΓÇ¥

Finck added the following: ΓÇ£I'm really excited about the nuance and the
subtlety of coming from silence, like a really impactful silence, and
beginning to emerge from that silence towards an impactful embellishment of
some sort, however great or greater. And that play between the diegetic
soundscape of the world within the tangible, physical space inside the game,
and where it blurs with the score, the music of the game, can be really
challenging and inspiring.ΓÇ¥

Blumhouse Games published its first horror project, Fear the Spotlight, in
October 2024 and on top of Sleep Awake, it has a steady stream of additional
terrors in store. The co-op gothic-horror game Eyes of Hellfire landed in
August from developer Gambrinous, and titles including Grave Seasons and
Crisol: Theater of Idols are due to drop soon.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at
https://www.engadget.com/gaming/blumhouse-gam...
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