Eclipsium is cosmic horror at its most fidgety and free-wheeling

Hold up each your fingers. Count them from close to left. When you get to four, stop. That is today's Advent calender number. You volition not request the remainder of your fingers. Please dispose of them arsenic you spot fit.

What crippled could punctual specified a sinister overture? It tin lone be... Eclipsium!

Edwin: I americium helium of the horrible hands. I travel my horrible hands done realms of buttress and ichor. They are my everything. I waggle my digits successful fishy forests, successful worn-down waiting rooms with chuckling radios. I clasp them up to heavenly abattoirs and nonstop them rummaging done the innards of the sun.

I person nary request of my different parts - retired they travel and disconnected they go, held glistening successful my fist. My hands are everything. They tin beryllium my everything. Where necessary, I change them. I marque my pinkie into a carving knife. I marque my thenar into a peekhole truthful that I tin scry my mode done the harsh places.

At intervals, I spot Her. She burns by the wayside and leans implicit the horizon, unblinking. Soon, I volition - I indispensable - clasp her hands successful my hands. But first, I indispensable travel my hands into somebody's restless intestine. The polyps jitter from the light, neither glitch nor flesh, plump and pixelated and amorous.

Eclipsium is 3 oregon 4 hours of beautiful, sorrowful hell. You are the Wanderer, a carnal pursuing the kaleidoscopic representation of a pistillate done unspeakable dreams. There are jumpy bits and immoderate arcane puzzles, but they don't beryllium for the restitution of solving them; mostly, you conscionable support tunnelling into the satellite successful frail anticipation that you'll scope the different broadside of it.

Each furniture of this Pandemonium brings a antithetic benignant of chthonic oregon celestial architecture. There is simply a emotion of the purely symbolic oregon metaphorical astatine play that makes maine recently resentful of the crabby causality of galore games that telephone themselves fantasies. This has been a beauteous bully twelvemonth for genuinely surreal horror.

Also, successful lawsuit it wasn't obvious, I do similar the accent connected hands. Hands are truthful expressive by default, and successful a first-person game, they are often the lone spot of your quality you see. Developers should person much amusive with them. Perhaps they should person somewhat little amusive than this. I admit, I ever wince erstwhile I 'equip' my knife.

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