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Immerse yourself in a narrative experience designed to target your senses and leave you trembling. Resonance is a new type of horror game which focuses on suspense rather than jump-scares and advanced enemy AI to make it a thrilling experience requiring skill and dedication to complete. A keen memory will serve you well as you attempt to unravel the mystery of the backstory in order to complete the game.

  • Echolocation - In Resonance you are able to see by making noise. This can be through movement, clapping, interacting with the environment and other methods. However, when you make noise you risk being discovered by things you would rather avoid. This adds an interesting element of strategy to navigating the environment which is enhanced by thoughtful and innovative level design and multiple enemy types each with different ways to detect you. 
  • Every death is a serious loss. Like old-school games if you die too often and lose all “lives” then it is game over. This is a very important feature for a horror game which is often overlooked. The primary flaw of otherwise excellent games like Resident Evil 7 and Outlast is that after a few deaths you will begin to feel immune to the element of fear. Each death reminds you that there is no real danger or reason for suspense as there is nothing at stake. This is not the case in Resonance - die too many times and you will lose your progress. (in a future update this feature can be disabled if it is not to your liking - however for the purpose of community feedback it will remain enabled for a few update cycles in order to gauge a fair amount of lives).
  • Resonance consists of 100% original and high quality models, textures and animations (with the exception of a sky box in one of the later levels).
  • Updates Incoming! -  Expect further development in the following areas:
    • Sound effects
    • level design
    • bug fixes - the game has been tested rigorously in-house however nothing will match community feedback.


StatusIn development
PlatformsWindows
Rating
Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
AuthorResonantGames
GenreSurvival
TagsHorror, Survival Horror

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Resonance beta build 0.9.9.zip 333 MB

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This was absolutely amazing. I enjoyed every aspect of this game ranging from the ever-present darkness to the lovable  lurkers.  I was a bit confused about speed at first due to the terrorizing darkness, however slowly learned to traverse this nightmare. This was a great enjoyable experience for me, I had never seen some of these game mechanics before and remains very unique. Especially considering this is only a beta! Wonderful work staying true to the real sense of suspense and danger with the permadeath feature, this game has that constant presence and fear of loss unlike the previously mentioned triple A titles. Possibly the best horror experience I have had in Gaming. I commend such a craft of great horror, and am happy to have played it. I wish you the best of luck on it's future development!


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Wow! Such kind words I can hardly contain myself. Support from people like you are what makes being an indie dev worth it! Thank you for giving this game a chance. 

Edit: also if you complete the game please let me know how many lives you had left for balancing reasons. Currently the life counter may be slightly too low which is the main reason for the beta. Cheers :)