A look at a new title, darkwebSTREAMER, is here to give us a different 90s horror story as we become a darkwebSTREAMER
The dark trope of the horrors of the internet are shining back through with a new title on the way in the form of darkwebSTREAMER. A new PC title that, as the name suggests, puts us onto the “dark web” for the reasons that you can assume, but with a darker twist. That darker twist being that we are doing all of this weird web stuff in the ’90s and also in a haunted apartment. All as we try to become an occult streamer during a time when streaming video was the worst. Let us all have a look at darkwebSTREAMER and see if it could be the next big horror title out there or one that we will hear weaker streamers fake scream to in the coming year.
In darkwebSTREAMER, we will be wandering around the fake internet that will be procedurally generated in the game and find us trying to solve some of the weirdness in the world. All while picking up recipes and rituals to defend ourselves with as more of the entities start coming at us. On top of all of that, we will need to keep our audience engaged so we do not fall off the zeitgeist of the internet of the time. Thankfully, each of the things we encounter in darkwebSTREAMER will have their own AI system built into them to try to keep things fresh. Maybe that will make it a lot easier to break into an industry that did not truly exist at the time of all of this. We will only have to wait and see.
darkwebSTREAMER — The Door Opens
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Become an occult streamer on a 90s dark internet in this horror RPG sim. Experience a fully procedurally generated world and endless sinister stories as you grow your stream, surf the web, perform rituals, make hard choices, manage your stats, and try to survive your increasingly haunted apartment.
Hauntings. Rituals. A strange internet. And you, an occult streamer, flirting with madness and mutilation as you find out just how far you’ll go to please your audience and get internet famous in this psycho-horror RPG streaming management sim.
Features:
- RPG Management Sim Gameplay: Manage your skills, social stats, money, viewers, subscribers, relationships, and more as you juggle your stream… and your survival.
- Unique Playthroughs: Encounter countless procedurally generated events, NPCs, webpages, items, entities, histories, stories, rituals, crafting recipes, and more! no two playthroughs are ever the same.
- Emergent Narratives: Completely randomized encounters, events, characters, histories, and outcomes mean a story that makes itself in response to your actions — and those of the world around you.
- Surf The Worlds’s First Generated Internet: Explore a procedurally generated infinite Internet, filled with strange individuals, bizarre writings, insidious entities, peculiar marketplaces, and a whole host of disturbing knickknacks and webpages to share with your subscribers.
- Cutting-Edge NPC AI: Each denizen of the dark web has their own uniquely generated vocabularies, speech styles, opinions, backstories, webpages, stats, and more, utilizing AI technology based on anthropology+linguistic theory. all NPCs live their own lives alongside yours — you ain’t the only hero of this show. make friends and enemies, improve your relationships, or fend off the people you accidentally enraged. it’s all part of being on the internet, baby.
- Get Haunted: While you’re raking in that sweet, sweet streamer cash, watch out for supernatural entities coming along with it. every creepy object you purchase and show off to your stream has a chance to unleash a haunted hell upon your cozy little apartment — no pressure, no pressure.
- Do Weird Rituals And Craft Weird Stuff: Find, purchase, or pry occult recipes and rituals from the web to protect yourself from your increasingly contaminated apartment. procedurally generated recipes means no googling what you want — you work for that ish, every time.
- Forge Your Own Identity: The internet changes you. fame changes you. being scared as all hell changes you. everything you encounter in darkwebSTREAMER changes you meaningfully and is tracked in your skills, stats, moods, memories, and more. every decision influences future decisions and opportunities. who will you be?
darkwebSTREAMER has me a little conflicted with what is going on here. On the surface, it does sound like an interesting premise for a video game or even a TV show out there. I am just not sure I can get past using the ’90s era to help tell the story. Sure, it does remove some of the modern things we have now that could quickly fix some of the things, as well as make it easy to slap together some basic web pages, but the rest of the idea falls flat with the streaming. darkwebSTREAMER is a video game and some suspension of disbelief is generally needed, but I am not sure I could go that far. Why not make it easier and lean into the early days of YouTube or Twitch? Maybe we will find out once the game gives us something more to look at.
Does darkwebSTREAMER look like it might be a title that will haunt your dreams or will it be one that is hard to get behind? Did you think that this game was going to go to a vastly darker place based on the title or is it a clever play on words? Why do you think they went with the 0s instead of an early 2000s setting for the game? Rush into the comment section and let us all know what you are thinking about for all of this. When there is more to offer up for darkwebSTREAMER, we will try to stream it all here for you. Until then, please keep on checking everything else our little non-haunted website has to offer up for you all.