Review: Iron Lung

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Short-form horror could be called my latest obsession in gaming. Horror can rarely be sustained for long periods of time. Compare your reactions at the beginning and end of a game like Resident Evil. In general, once you have the mechanics down and can read the game better, it’s not as scary. In a short-form game, you’re rarely given the luxury to really get comfortable.

David Szymanski may be most famous for Dusk, but he’s certainly no stranger to the short-form horror genre. However, unlike many of his peers, he tends to deviate from the trashy but innovative slasher genre to take a more experimental approach. Games like A Wolf in Autumn and Fingerbones. For his latest creation, Iron Lung, he takes us to the scariest place on Earth: the bottom of the ocean. Except it’s not on Earth and the ocean is made of blood. Still.

Iron Lung (PC) Developer: David Szymanski Publisher: David Szymanski Released: March 10, 2022 MSRP: $5.99

Far off in the future, humankind has extended its prehensile fingers to the stars. Then it all suddenly goes wrong, but not in the usual sci-fi way. Instead, some mysterious force plucks all the stars and liveable planets out of the void and leaves the remaining humans – the ones unlucky enough to be on ships and space stations at the time – floating with nothing more than darkness, trash planets, and endless suck.

Being the parasites that we are, the survivors attempt to find something new to feed off of on the dead moons and barren worlds that they were left with. On one particular planet, a sea of blood is found, which sounds like a good indication that there might also be a mountain of meat nearby. No such luck, so they’re sending you down to do a little recon for something tasty.

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