Only your ears can save you in this creepy horror game

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Explore a house as a blind girl with echolocation senses might.
Explore a house as a blind girl with echolocation senses might.
Photo: Deep End Games

Imagine exploring a creepy house full of eerie and unfamiliar sounds, supernatural horror dripping from every bannister and behind every mysterious, creaking door.

Now imagine entering such a disturbing environment when you’re blind.

Cassie is the blind young protagonist of Perception, a horror game from many of the folks that worked on Bioshock Infinite and Dead Space, and she’s been dreaming of this house for some time now. When she finally figures out it’s real, she heads off to investigate it, using only echolocation–sound into visuals–to confront and solve the ghostly mysteries within.

There’s a gloriously tense trailer, too, from the perspective of the wisecracking teen, Cassie. Check it out.

The game is currently being funded on Kickstarter, one of the ways modern gaming studios get money and build a buzz around their games without resorting to traditional hype-based PR campaigns (though some of them do that, as well).

As you can see in the video above, Cassie uses sound to “see” her environment. You’ll have to help Cassie explore the house and it’s deadly Presence, decoding clues and deciphering its secrets along the way.

The team at Deep End Games worked at Irrational Games with Ken Levine, who’s posting about Perception on Facebook, giving it a boost. The Kickstarter campaign has 27 days to go, and has reached almost $56,000 of its $150,000 goal.

If you’re into horror games that promise, as Levine said, “a bold and fresh take on first person narrative games,” then be sure to head on over to Kickstarter and pledge your support.

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