Release Date: October 13, 2016
A horror adventure game developed for virtual reality sets by a small developer Tangentleman in cooperation with Sony Santa Monica. Here They Lie is a dark, psychedelic experience that takes the player to a terrifying and slightly surrealistic world filled with various dangers. In contrast to other classic survival horrors, the game focuses on dark atmosphere and on fueling player's fear.
Here They Lie is one of the titles available for PS4 which uses PlayStation VR goggles. The title was created by a small studio Tangentlemen founded by Cory Davis, Toby Gard, Rich Smith and John Garcia-Shelton, who previously worked on such series like Tomb Raider, Medal of Honor and Call of Duty. Santa Monica Studio also helped in production of Here They Lie. They are known as the creators of such titles like God of War and The Unfinished Swan, which was created in cooperation with Giant Sparrow.
Here They Lie for PS4 can be most easily described as a dark, psychedelic experience which takes the player to a terrifying, surrealistic world filled with various dangers. In difference to other survival horrors, Tangentlemen’s production focuses mostly on narration and increasing the fear with more sophisticated methods than classic jump scares. The title creates fear in the mind with various visions and unordinary characters encountered in the game world. The feel of danger and scare are additionally multiplied by the use of PlayStation VR thanks to which player feels as if he was actually inside the game.
Platforms:
PlayStation 4
Developer: Tangentlemen
Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment
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Game Ratings for Here They Lie Video Game.
GameSpot: 8 / 10 by Miguel Concepcion
Prog-rock album-cover aesthetics meets occult imagery in this gripping psychological horror excursion on PlayStation VR.
PlayStation LifeStyle: 6 / 10 by Michael Briers
With Here They Lie, I stared long and hard into the abyss, only this time it didn’t stir; instead, I was left gazing at an under-cooked horror experience that while surreal, fails to deliver a fulfilling end product. Horror games should present an exercise in nerve-shredding tension whether they’re built for virtual reality or not. Sadly, Here They Lie leans too heavily on VR as a novelty to justify a by-the-numbers entry into the genre.
IGN: 4.8 / 10 by Kallie Plagge
Though it has a few unsettling, adrenaline-pumping moments, Here They Lie fails to deliver believable psychological horror. It definitely tries — it’s filled with the requisite creepy, gargling monster sounds and reality-bending that can contribute tension to scares — but it doesn’t blend its horror elements well enough to be consistently terrifying. Relying so heavily on overwrought surrealism and a few haunted house-style jumps to create tension rather than fostering any true discomfort (besides nausea) leaves it feeling flat.
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