Worse Than Death is an adventure developed by Benjamin Rivers, released 7 October 2019 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS.
What Worse Than Death is
Worse Than Death is an adventure game developed by Benjamin Rivers and released in 2019. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on GameMaker Studio 2. It carries an ESRB M age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A New Horror Adventure from the Creator of Home! Worse Than Death is a scary, emotional thriller about a high school reunion that goes horribly wrong. You play Holly, a tough, smart, 28-year-old who returns home to confront her past, only to face a nightmare she could never imagine. As she runs for her life, desperate to rescue her best friend Flynn from a terrible force that's hunting them both, Holly must survive unexpected truths about her home town, her friends, and even herself. A Hair-Raising Adventure! Run, leap, crawl and hide through eight chilling locales in this pulp horror adventure game. You'll solve puzzles, use items that you find, and unearth terrible truths. But watch out!…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, horror and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Worse Than Death holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 82% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 16 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Worse Than Death launched on 7 October 2019, within three weeks of The Outer Worlds, Disco Elysium, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019) and The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: The Outer Worlds, Disco Elysium, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019), The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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