I wander through empty city streets, flinching at the terrible sounds around me. I know something is going to jump out for me soon. I just know it. Maybe it is this corner? Okay. It wasn’t. Maybe this alleyway? Nope. Onto the next part of this maze. I guess they aren’t doing another jump scare so soon after — ahh!

Indie studio Tangentlemen have made a creepy game — in collaboration with Sony Santa Monica — of walking through mazes with Here They Lie. You are an unnamed protagonist experiencing terrible things, looking for a way out of them, looking for the beautiful woman Dana who has disappeared. It is a series of levels with different themes, different ways to unnerve you or shock you.

As you journey through all of this, how does the game actually play? You walk. You jog. You open doors. You take side paths in the maze-like city of tunnels to find boxes or cabinets to open with creepy little stories or photographs that bring spoken philosophical musings that are often much brighter and hopeful than the darkness around you. You find batteries for your flashlight. You see enemies and either wait for them to pass or run from them.

It is a game that consists entirely of travel and observation.

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