If you believed weirder horror games cannot be made, then Team Clout is here to prove you wrong. This raw horror first-person game gets in early, with a reveal trailer full to the brim with grotesque nightmares and body horrors, much worse for the dirt-and-guts-steel kinds of thrillers shy from being played by even the celebs who dare. Endorsed by PlayStation, the trailer offers a spine-chilling corridor into worlds these players are supposed to survive somehow, if they really want to.
Immediately, the trailer splashes everything about a nightmare—deformed beasts, disturbing environments, and thicker than a twenty times atmosphere in dread. The spectacle gets antiseptically grotesque with a full body-horror jumbotron worthy of a Cronenberg movie. Limbs are twisting, flesh crouching in impossible ways to erect buildings, wherever it is simply looks like it oozed out of an underground hospital experiment.
Gamers were very talkative about it. Some called it “fantastic,” like @medicalgrower42; others said, like @pixelluma, “I’ll be sleeping with the lights on tonight.” Then, @CQ861429750 joked that the platter of Cheetos should probably be allocated to “horror games with a controller.” Fair.
On the other hand, in others, there was no happiness to be found. Just Saying, @Alguien58606351 said, “All these games look the same. Boring 😴🥱,” while @TheGamingCynics sarcastically referred to this as “terrifying” like the famous glitches of Assassin’s Creed Unity. Ouch, for a little.
This hype was not just about the horror. Some players, including @itsTayDadon, are already hoping for PSVR2 support, while @wh0vee was asking if it is available to be wish-listed yet (no official word on it yet, though fingers remain tightly crossed). Added to the PlayStation occasion, @xHICKx rejoiced for “no censoring!” Which, given the trailer’s content, is a great point to make.
Of course, the internet took some… unexpected tangents. A few used the occasion to pitch their crypto projects: @STEIN_2111 and @stein_2122 pitched a $GTA presale in the middle of a discussion on horror. Because what else is as terrifying as “body horror” than a volatile meme coin, right?
Then the ConsoleBattleRoyale began. @KentrellBishop saluted that he would be playing PlayStation’s “mid games” on his Xbox handheld, starting a back-and-forth about which hardware is truly better with @Beanss_____.(Spoiler alert: It didn’t stay civil for long.)
Shall we now get back to talking about the actual game? ILL does not have a release date as of yet, but all the hype is insane. Judging by the trailer’s kind of psychological dread and visceral horror, this certainly will not be the usual jump-scary-fest: Team Clout very much wants to get under your skin.
Would it be as terrifying as places like Silent Hill or PT? Too soon to say. But if the full game delivers even something like half of what is found in the trailer, it could alter the entire landscape of terror forever—a tale Purgatory Block Party.
