Gloomwood is dependent on its sound design. But the feeling cannot be captured in just these screenshots. The demo I saw featured a number of spooky locales, from the Victorian streets and stores above to the sewers below. The dark atmosphere is one of the best parts. Style and atmosphere always trump graphics, and Gloomwood is no exception. But New Blood’s games have never been about graphical quality. Visually, Gloomwood may not seem like much right now. Before long, I was out of ammo, and stealth became a lot more important. But being as Gloomwood is a survival horror game, ammo was a resource to be managed wisely. Of course, I am quite bad at stealth and most of my encounters ended in gunfights. I tried my darndest to attempt sneak melee attacks, a nice sword-cane thrust.
Sneaking boils down to using the “walk slowly” button to reduce noise, and hope you can get the jump on whatever enemy you encounter. I’m told there will be NPCs, but right now the area was mostly populated by glowy-eyed pilgrim-y looking folk with guns. There is no defined objective in the demo, just exploring and surviving in the city. Similar to Thief, the key to Gloomwood is stealth. All the demo had after that was a revolver and a pump shotgun-more to come, I’m told. The first weapon you get is, what else, a sword cane. You have no powers (other than being able to take a bullet or five, which I suppose counts), and you don’t level up. Your character in Gloomwood, at least as far as I know, is just some guy who wakes up in a nightmare land. You play as an old-timey gentleman (whom you cannot see, as it’s a first-person game, but is undoubtedly wearing a stovepipe hat and monocle), and must traverse these dark cobblestone streets as you figure out what exactly is going on here.
The setting of Gloomwood is a mysterious Victorian era town, presumably named Gloomwood, though the town appears to be within some kind of nightmare realm. Unlike Dusk‘s homage to Quake, and Amid Evil‘s to Hexen-basically, really fast shooters-the inspiration for Gloomwood is much closer to that of Thief. Gloomwood is a game by Dillon Rogers, being produced by New Blood Interactive. All of the games of theirs I’d played (those two I just mentioned) have been fantastic, and I was excited to see their new game, Gloomwood. New Blood, as you may recall, is the publisher behind Dusk and Amid Evil, two of the best retro shooters to come out in recent years. New Blood Interactive had a stellar exhibit this year. Gloomwood Hands-On First Look – The Real Thief 4
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