An organic and sinister world composed of strange shapes and dark pictures is depicted in Scorn.
In Scorn, you play as an anonymous character who has isolated himself in an eerie place where slime-looking living tissue and twisted mechanical contraptions have been combined in a strange relationship that seems symbiotic in nature. There are a few first-person shooter moments and horror elements, but Scorn is more about puzzle solving and exploration than action or scares.
A trailer for Scorn
Ebb Software claims to have been inspired by the works of Swiss artist HR Giger and Polish painter, photographer and sculptor Zdzisław Beksiński to construct his half-flesh, half-machine world – injecting Giger’s biomechanical art style into Beksiński’s dystopian surrealism . Composers Billain Aethek and Brian Williams created Scorn’s soundtrack, which is really the only thing players will be able to hear during the entire adventure, as Scorn has no dialogue. Instead, all of the storytelling is told through the game’s environment.
Scorn will be released on October 21 on Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S and PC (Steam/Epic Games Store/GOG). It will also be available through Xbox Game Pass upon launch.
Gameplay for Scorn
Serbian studio Ebb Software and publisher Kepler Interactive explain Scorn’s gameplay:
In this introductory sequence, players get to know the character they are going to guide through the bio-maze. Without any assistance, the player will have to make his way through the bowels of the game universe, equip himself with strange tools and solve a grotesque enigma which only announces what is to come… By exploring Scorn, a world surreal and nightmarish, players will come to understand the character they are guiding, if only slightly. Tasked with exploring the hellish landscape of Scorn, the player must learn its rules and master its puzzles without any guidance or support, being left to their own devices in a fully immersive experience. By uncovering these secrets and gathering the strange bio-mechanical tools that seem to have been used by the civilization that once inhabited this world, it may be possible to survive. Finding the truth, however, is a whole other matter.