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Horror game 'The Park' reaches consoles May 3rd
Funcom's The Park has become a bit of a sleeper hit among PC gamers thanks to its combination of parenthood-themed horror and its Let's Play-friendly game mechanics, and now it's ready to come to consoles. The studio has revealed that The Park will be available on May 3rd for both the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The exploration title isn't expected to change much in the conversion, but that's fine -- really, it's all about the short-but-scary experience of losing your child in a theme park gone horribly wrong.
Horror game 'The Park' creeps onto consoles in 2016
The Park, a dark thriller about a child lost in an amusement park, was not everybody's cup of tea when it came out for the PC on Halloween. But we certainly had fun with the messed-up, H.P. Lovecraft-style story, and other players must have too, because it's now coming to the Playstation 4 and Xbox One. Developer Funcom said it was "encouraged by the positive reactions we have received on the Windows PC version." As a reminder, you play the game as a distraught mother seeking her son in a decrepit amusement park. The atmosphere is over-the-top creepy, but are the scares real or in her paranoid mind? If you want to play on console, you'll find out in early 2016.
Playdate's Halloween Horror Hangover: 'The Park' and 'NOCT'
Thought our week of spooky Twitch streams was over? Not quite: there are just too many deliciously creepy games out there to cram into just two Playdate streams, so we're giving you a bonus -- Engadget's Halloween Horror Hangover. Join us as we explore the terror of losing a child in an seedy amusement park (in the appropriately named The Park), right here at 6PM EST (3PM PST), at Twitch.tv/joystiq or on the Engadget Gaming homepage. Not scary enough? Fine: we'll also be checking out the terrifying, monochrome monsters of NOCT.
'The Park' isn't your typical haunted-carnival horror game
The Park looks like a classic first-person horror game that happens to take place in a creepy, dilapidated, deadly amusement park. It has all the horror bells and whistles, from rides that suddenly start on their own to a skeletal, shadowy figure known simply as "the boogey man." But, just like a placid lake in a haunted campground, something more lies beneath The Park's surface. Its narrative is inspired by something life-altering and terrifying. The Park is a game about parenting.
