the presence

After BioShock developer Irrational Games laid off most of its staff, many developers from the studio came together and formed The Deep End Games; a Boston-based game studio founded by award-winning level designer Bill Gardner of Irrational Games. For their first project, Gardner and his team went to Kickstarter to get funding for their debut Unreal Engine 4-powered horror title: “Perception.” In Perception, you play as a blind woman named Cassie who is able to “see” using echolocation. You will use this ability to solve puzzles and avoid enemies like a creature called “The Presence.” There seems to be an ongoing cat-and-mouse between Cassie and The Presence to maintain tension as the player explores, working similarly to Alien: Isolation. It sounds like the game will take place entirely a...