I'm always down for a David Szymanski joint. The Dusk and Iron Lung dev has a real way with making games that feel good, no matter the genre—really tactile weapons and interactions, great sound design, just a general attention to detail—and his games always have an anarchic sense of humor that I really dig. Szymanski's next game, Butcher's Creek, feels like another winner. It's a melee combat-focused first person horror game where you square off against torture cultists in rural Appalachia.
Like so many indies, it's reviving a genre or idea that the big dogs Nintendon't anymore. If Selaco is an indie celebration of Monolith's F.E.A.R., Butcher's Creek is taking another look at the studio's other horror hit, Condemned: Criminal Origins. Condemned is a game where you're an FBI agent framed for murder, so you have to fend off hobos with improvised weapons and get menaced by paranormal entities in the hopes of clearing your name.
