Publisher Daedalic has announced it is publishing a horror game from Swedish designers Shining Gate Software entitled Decay - The Mare

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The "3D psychological horror" episodic game is releasing in three instalments available in Brazilian-Portuguese, Chinese, English, French, Korean, Italian, Japanese, Spanish and Russian. Whilst the initial two episodes are available now, the third episode - along with a full-game version - will be released "upon completion of development", initially scheduled for a PC/Mac release in February 2015.The game sees you play as addict Sam, who winds up trying to kick his habit in the "Reaching Dreams" institution. During his first night, however, something "goes wrong", entrapping him in an endless nightmare.The publisher describes the game as a homage to "the Resident Evil and Silent Hill games, as well as to horror adventure games like Phantasmagoria, The 11th Hour and Gabriel Knight."“We’re huge fans of all classic horror-adventure games, and are creating the Decay series to keep horror gaming alive,” said Fredrik Westlund, creative director of developer Shining Gate.“Thanks to our work with Daedalic Entertainment, we can complete Decay – The Mare now, and bring it to a wide audience of PC players, when Daedalic publishes the game on major digital download platforms, such as Steam.”Daedalic recently confirmed that it is publishing Blackguards 2, which is scheduled for release on January 20 2015

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