I Want A Game Version Of NIN Art Director's AI Horror Gem Immediately

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The former art director of industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, Rob Sheridan, is currently running a social media fiction experiment called VIIR (an abbreviation of Volstof Institute for Interdimensional Research), an AI-illustrated story that's sumptuous and intriguing enough to become its own horror game similar to Control. Remedy's Control is already an excellent action-horror title dripping in Lynchian weirdness, with intriguing and surreal lore and paranormal themes. But a VIIR video game would have the potential to provide gaming fans with a new experience containing much of the same appeal in its setting, structure, and overall premise that leans away from action and fully into visceral cosmic horror.

The similarities between VIIR and a paranormal mystery game like Control is largely through its story tropes. Control casts the player as the director of a secret organization that investigates the paranatural and interdimensional, and stores objects that exhibit those qualities. Likewise, VIIR is, in its own universe, run by a group sharing lost research that a fictional physicist named Florian Volstof conducted on an alleged "wound" in space-time at the institution from which the story takes its name. Most of the story beats take the form of images of items affected by something on the other side of this wound, or other effects produced by Volstof's experiments.

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These images, posted to VIIR's Twitter account, are the star of the show, establishing it as a truly unique horror project that'd have something to bring to the table that other games with paranormal research themes, like Control and indie favorite SCP Containment Breach, haven't