{"id":25076,"date":"2024-06-10T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T07:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/e35f2d85-65fb-4272-bf29-92e203ec87c312"},"modified":"2024-06-10T07:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T07:00:11","slug":"halfway-to-dawn-is-a-surprisingly-tense-bite-sized-survival-horror-game-for-playdate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/halfway-to-dawn-is-a-surprisingly-tense-bite-sized-survival-horror-game-for-playdate\/","title":{"rendered":"Halfway to Dawn is a surprisingly tense, bite-sized survival horror game for Playdate"},"content":{"rendered":"
Andrea Baroni\u2019s Halfway to Dawn<\/em> is unbelievably bleak for a game you can play from start to finish in about 10 minutes. I mean that as a compliment; it\u2019s the best horror experience I\u2019ve had on the Playdate yet.<\/p>\n As someone who tends to gravitate towards all things spooky, one of the things I\u2019ve been most interested in as I explore what\u2019s out there for Playdate is seeing how developers will make horror work for the weird little handheld. Halfway to Dawn <\/em>takes a blended approach: in the first half, it\u2019s a text-based narrative game where you\u2019re scavenging for resources and readying yourself for the long night ahead; in the second, it\u2019s an all-out fight for your life against an onslaught of eldritch creatures.<\/p>\n Halfway to Dawn<\/em> wastes no time in setting a mood of desolation and impending doom, beginning with dialogue from our protagonist about feeling \u201cas lifeless as these scattered remains of humanity\u201d in a city overtaken by some unnamed terror. During the narrative portion of the game, you must choose among different locations to visit \u2014 the mall, pharmacy, gun store and a house \u2014 so you can hopefully find things like first aid kits, guns, ammo and traps. But there\u2019s no telling whether each of these trips will be successful.<\/p>\n