When they're not making environmental art for projects like Wasteland 3, The Brotherhood has a history of making enticingly weird games. Sin almost liked Stasis: Bone Totem and had positive results, although she gave up after a few hours. This is also my experience with Beautiful Desolation; An isometric RPG. I really enjoyed the art, then one day I put it down and incidentally never played it again. This may be a coincidence, but no matter what is said about these projects, one thing is certain: compared to the upcoming horror FPS Animal Use Protocol, both featured far fewer monkeys.
The Steam page describes it as a “first-person, narrative-driven survival horror game” (something evil chasing you is one of them), but I'd also take “Grimdark Ape Out,” which sounds like a joke but is actually awesome a sale. Your very smart monkey, Penn, escapes from a laboratory with a group of other test animals, including a little mouse friend named Trip who lives in your gravity gun and makes a little jump every time you fire it.
The trailer shows dirty, annoying technology similar to Brotherhood's previous games. This is good. It also does the horror game trailer thing where a bunch of kids sing the Barney The Dinosaur theme really slowly. This is bad and stupid. There is a huge turtle inside. It also contains potassium benzoate etc. also includes. Worst of all, it won't actually launch until 2026. So why am I writing about this now?!
Monke.
Or Chimpanzee, I guess, but if you're about to write a comment along those lines, I'd suggest you first make sure you know your phylum and genus from your ligma. Feel free to ask questions about the last one. Here are a few more details:
In this 3D first-person perspective, narrative-driven survival horror game, you play as Penn, a hyper-intelligent chimpanzee who leads a desperate escape of laboratory animals from a nightmarish facility where every corner hides new horrors. Armed only with your wits, a gravity manipulation device, and accompanied by your scrappy mouse friend Trip, you'll sneak around the dystopian Anchorage Station, relentlessly pursued by a terrifying chimera of experiments gone wrong.
Apparently there is no arachnophobia crossover either.