Indie Horror Game Iron Lung Limits the Player's Perspective to Deliver Great Scares

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Iron Lung is an indie horror game that was developed by David Szymanski. It features minimalist gameplay and a unique type of horror that feeds into the player’s sense of dread.

The indie horror game Iron Lung was released just last March, and has since garnered many positive reviews. Players particularly enjoy the title’s atmosphere and sound design as they both add to the immersion. They also applaud the title for its unique gameplay, making for a short but sweet horror game experience.

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The Steam horror game is set far into the future, after an event known as The Quiet Rapture. During this strange occurrence, every known star and habitable planet disappeared from the universe, leaving only the space stations, spaceships, and the people inside them. To survive, the remaining people had to search for resources on the universe’s barren moons. One of these moons had an ocean of blood, and the survivors sent a convict — the player — to explore its depths.

Unfortunately, the submarine provided wasn’t built to navigate the depths of the horror game ocean. To fortify its interior, the player was placed inside the vehicle before it was welded shut. The only window also had to be closed to hold against the water pressure. Thus, the only way the player would be able to see the outside of the submarine was by taking photographs with a primitive camera attached to the front of the vehicle.

When the game starts, the player is shoved into the tiny interior of the submarine, squished in further by the overhead pipes and the navigational tools they’ll need to figure out. There’s no way of seeing outside, so they can only estimate their position with the submarine’s