Strange Scaffold's next game is about stalking and sacrificing your neighbours to keep the world from ending

The first release in a five-game publishing deal

Following game concepts includingMax Payne with vampires,Kojima’s Strands with witches,organ trading, andan airport for aliens currently run by dogs, Xalavier Nelson Jr’s Strange Scaffold studio are back with another doozy. They’ve announced a release date of April 16th forLife Eater, a game about a modern-day druid who must kidnap and sacrifice people every year to sate a dark god and keep the world from ending. I know what you’re thinking: surely he’s insane in the membrane, insane in the brain. But what if he isn’t?

A press release says the kidnapping simulator is “inspired by the Saw media franchise and the apocalyptic paranoia of 10 Cloverfield Lane.” You’ll have to stalk your neighbours to discover suitable victims and their lives, then abduct and sacrifice them before either the cops find you or, you know, the world ends.

Life Eater is headedto Steamon the 16th of April, priced at $15.

The release of Life Eater will be the first fruit of a five-game partnership between Strange Scaffold and publisher Frosty Pop. Coming up are:I Am Your Beast, a secret agent revenge thiller FPS; Frosty Pop’s fighting gamePillow Champ, which Nelson is writing on; a mobile version of theMax Payne-y vampire shooter El Paso; a mysterious “after-hours library horror game”; and “a co-op kaiju horror cooking title”.

Disclosure: Xalavier Nelson Jr.has written for RPSin years past, everything from reviewingFrostpunkto examining the assassins of Assassin’s Creed.