New horror game is The Thing on a Scottish oil rig

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Cosmic forces visit a deep-sea drilling operation in this evocative but slightly too-thin Scottish horror story.

An oil rig is a location already terrifyingly dense with phobia triggers; heights, drowning, isolation, cold, electrocution, darkness, fire and tight spaces.

The foreboding setting and tense but familiar interactions between the rig workers reminded me of John Carpenter’sHelped along by a grainy cinematic presentation and pitch-perfect decor, the Beira D rig and its inhabitants feel ripped straight from a movie theatre of 50 years ago, and our protagonist Caz is a great reluctant hero.

The situation devolves rapidly when something seems to infect the rig, leaving Caz to deal not only with company bureaucracy but the double-horror of a collapsing structure and colleagues who have been grotesquely transformed into murderous appendages of a veiny deep-sea nightmare.

 

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