The Backrooms meets Sons of the Forest in new IKEA horror game

pcgamesn.com:

The Backrooms and Sons of the Forest come together via a new indie horror game that challenges you to use building and survival mechanics to stay alive while trapped in a massive, living, and ever-changing version of IKEA – literally the worst nightmare that I can imagine.

The endless shelves and aisles. The nauseous, swirling colours. The aimless walking, and sheer pointlessness of it all – shopping for furniture, or “bits” for the house, is a psychological torture to which we all, seemingly as penance for some dreadful and intractable original sin that we cannot comprehend, must all eventually be subjected. It’s a living death. The mind dulls. The senses fade. How can there be so many different types of bath mat? Time loses meaning in IKEA. Like a doomed astronaut falling through an event horizon, a minute of normal time becomes an hour, a day, a year.

So imagine being stuck in IKEA for the rest of your life. Imagine that the corridors, and vast, pallid warehouses filled with mattress toppers literally, genuinely went on forever. Imagine the floor manager was a gigantic flesh monster with a rhino horn instead of a face. Well, that’s The Store is Closed, an upcoming indie horror game that sees you trapped inside an IKEA-style furniture store as the architecture grows and shifts around you, and the staff hunt you for your blood.

As well as avoiding the mutated store assistants – which still wear their bright-yellow “here to help” t-shirts, despite transforming into mounds of tendony meat – you must construct a shelter and supplies for yourself by breaking down furniture, and pilfer food from the in-store canteen. The goal, naturally, is to find a way out, but the only way to do so is to go “deeper into the store”.