Sure, the modern internet has a lot of issues with it – but the horrors of the “good” old days await those lured in by nostalgia. Shacknews Contributing Editor Will Borger found his experiences with oneway.exe, a first-person single-player survival horror game where the darkest corners of the internet become reality, by Disordered Media, a disquieting and unsettling reminder that the weird old days of the internet were often the wrong kind of weird.
Horror is old hat for me, and I don’t scare easy, at least not normally. But More Than One Way unnerved me in the best possible way. I was compelled to push forward, and scared of what I might find. That’s what good horror does. You know you shouldn’t go down in the basement, but you can’t help it.
When I finally reached the end of the room I’d picked, I was relieved, but excited to see more. I ultimately didn’t get to play another one, but I did watch a couple other people play, and… uh… I think I might’ve gotten off easy given some of the stuff I saw other people dealing with.
oneway.exe takes netizens on a journey to discover what happened to the development team for an unfinished video game – so unfinished that it’s unassumingly labeled UNTITLED.EXE. But within the depths of the program are tantalizing hints, worrisome innuendo, and outright horrors that tug on the threads of old text messenger programs, forums, and obscure websites that made up the fabric of the old internet. What unravels through each explored room is a reminder that some things are preferably left in the dark.
Read the full article here. oneway.exe will release on PC via Steam.
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