Hello friends. This is a Let’s Play video of “Drift Survivors” demo
version. Top-down car combat meets survivor-style chaos. Drift through
neon arenas, delete waves with wild weapons, and upgrade your build to
last longer every run.
Fifteen years of mythological worldbuilding, Lovecraftian obsession, and influences spanning H.P. Lovecraft, China Mieville, and Frank Herbert have been poured into HYPNOS, and you can feel every one of those years pressing against the edges of its impossible architecture. Redlock Studio – the French team behind Shattered: Tale of the Forgotten King and Blackshard – has crafted a first-person exploration adventure set inside a Lovecraftian megastructure fever dream called the Nameless City, a vast semi-open world suspended between consciousness and oblivion at the foot of the holy mountain of Kadath, where the gods dwell and the laws of the universe quietly stop applying. You play as Choron, a vagabond haunted by visions of a faceless boy named Matthew, and your search for this spectral child draws you through layered dream-realms populated by strange Monarchs, spirits, and bizarre figures caught in webs of causality that your choices actively reshape toward multiple endings. This isn’t a game interested in combat or reflexes – it’s a slower, more contemplative descent where the act of exploration itself is the mechanic, as you interact with the environment to transform the very materia of dreams and lift veils that conceal deeper truths beneath the city’s shifting geometry. The sense of scale is staggering, the kind of impossible verticality and non-Euclidean spaces that make you involuntarily screenshot every new vista, while ALT236’s soundtrack blends ambient, retro, and dreamlike electronic textures into something that sounds like falling asleep in a cathedral built by an alien intelligence. Part of the wider Maze Chronicles franchise, HYPNOS occupies a space in gaming that very few titles dare to inhabit – the intersection of walking simulator, interactive fiction, and psychological horror where the dread isn’t from monsters but from the creeping realization that the architecture of the dream might know you better than you know yourself.
Developer: Redlock Studio, Enclave
Publisher: Redlock Studio
Genre: Adventure, Walking Simulator, Exploration, Platformer, Atmospheric, Indie
Release Date: Coming soon
Reviewed on: PC/Windows
Available on: PC/Windows
Link: Steam
Review copy was demo.
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