The Forest meets BioShock in upcoming survival game Serum

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The Forest is a fantastic survival game, full of scavenging, building, and stoving in the heads of mutant cannibal monsters using a lump of firewood. Combine that with BioShock, the classic steampunk body horror where you upgrade your DNA by injecting yourself over and over again with a mysterious, glowing potion, and what do you get? You get Serum, an upcoming survival FPS that just got a new trailer, and is available now for your Steam wishlist.

The premise is eerie, if a little familiar. You wake up strapped to a hospital bed, being repeatedly injected with the eponymous, neon fluid. After finding everyone dead, you stumble into the wilderness, and have to scavenge supplies and crafting materials to build yourself a shelter, fashion weapons, and keep yourself topped up with serum lest your body start to fail. Your house is your safety zone, and you can build melee, ranged, and even serum-based weaponry while trying to solve puzzles and survive the outdoors as you race against the clock.

Oh yes, that’s the other thing. Like Jason Statham in Crank (jeez – it’s been a while since I made a Crank reference) your body has a kind of in built countdown, which means if you don’t keep yourself sufficiently serum-ed, and get to the bottom of what’s going on in time, it’s curtains. You can see more in the trailer below:

There are dozens of other influences here. The little gadget that scans the environment looks like a cross between No Man’s Sky and the motion sensor from Alien: Isolation. The cars and skeletons piled up in the streets are very The Last of Us, and fighting against wild animals using hand-crafted slings and spears comes straight from Far Cry. It’s visually strong, too, with all the glowing greens and splayed,