It’s available on Steam and itch.io for $19.99. Please play it it’s very good and there is a possum. Out of the gate, it demonstrated some extraordinary narrative. 22! - I’m very wary of giving away any spoilers. To catch everyone up: Scarlet Hollow began in 2020, when the first chapter ( which is now free) of the spooky tale was released. I prefer for my reviews to be longer, but since the story is still developing - Episode Four comes out Nov. Just the noises in Episode Three give me nightmares. Thus far, the mystery at its heart encompasses omens of doom, generational curses, ghosts, and lots and lots of physical horror. The game is a little under halfway done, with three episodes out of a planned seven completed as of March 7, 2022. Tabitha Scarlet, the protagonist’s guarded and inhospitable cousin, is a fan favorite, and currently the face of Black Tabby’s social media. Some standouts for me include Gretchen the pug (pet of local paranormal Youtuber Stella Richmond), and Dustin, the opossum that lives in your dresser (you can even make him a nest!). Especially if you choose the “Talk to Animals” character trait at the beginning, you get to interact with some seriously cool peeps. What stands out most for me is the characters. And because small-town cops wouldn’t know how to find an eldritch horror if it were at the bottom of their coffee cup, you have to be the one to investigate. Obviously, there’s an untold evil lurking just beneath the town’s checkered history. “Scarlet Hollow” is an episodic visual novel by Black Tabby Games in which the player - whose first name, hometown, and pronouns are all selectable - returns to their family’s titular place of origin for the funeral of their estranged aunt. But “Scarlet Hollow” is the best thing since sliced bread. In addition to her work in video games, Abby is the acclaimed cartoonist behind works like The Last Halloween, The Crossroads at Midnight, Junior Scientist Power Hour, The Earth Before Us, and many more.īefore co-founding Black Tabby Games, Tony worked a variety of positions for a variety of publishing and tech companies, including building organizing technology for political campaigns.Ībby and Tony live in Boston with Spoons the cat, Wednesday the snake, and Nubs the axolotl.I love both video games and horror, so maybe I’m biased. Their games tell the kinds of stories than only games can tell, and fall at the intersection of horror and humor. Commercial:Īdventure, Interactive Fiction, Visual Novelīlack Tabby Games is an indie studio founded by Real Married Adults Abby Howard and Tony Howard-Arias. Each major character has dozens-and often hundreds-of hand-drawn sprites that interact with backgrounds and capture a full range of lighting, emotion, environment, and outfit changes. Every background in the game is drawn by hand and inked on massive 19x24 inch paper.
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