![]() ![]() Melo cites Thief 2, Lost In Vivo and Anna as the first game inspirations they think of, but more broadly there's Wolfgun's album Cineres. Watch on YouTube Our recs for good horror games you can play right nowĪs well as being interested in folklore and urban legends, The Salt Order takes inspiration from a wealth of things. ![]() To prevent the spirits from entering one's home, you could put salt in front of the openings of the house." ![]() "During invocations, drawing a circle of salt could act as a basic protection. "In many stories that I knew as a child, salt was one of the very powerful magical protective elements against evil spirits," solo dev Khamelot tells me over email. You are largely defenceless, except for the ability to draw on the ground with salt. It's a low-poly PS1-style game where an order of witches has tasked you with retrieving a grimoire from a cursed realm of endless trees. There's still room for witches with some threat to 'em, though, and I love a weird horror game, so you can imagine that when I heard about The Salt Order my interest was immediately piqued. It's nice that witches have changed in our minds to "unmarried lady who lives alone and is good with herbs and cats :]", when they used to be "unmarried lady who lives alone and is good with herbs and her cat is the devil and she has sex with the devil". Check the tag for more.Ī lot (most) of the magic games we're highlighting this week are in some manner lovely and nice, because witches these days tend towards the cottagecore (ily, Little Witch In The Woods!). RPS is celebrating witchy, wizardy, magical games, as well as games by trans devs, in a festival of coolness we're calling the RPS Magic Week. ![]()
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