Midnight Nowhere  PC

The player awakes in the morgue of an empty decaying hospital littered with corpses and the debris of disaster. Outside the city is deserted stalked by a supernatural serial killer (it seems) and cordoned off by the army. The game starts of with the feeling of 28 Days Later and the Resident Evil games - the deserted city spattered with gore - but soon develops into something much more twisted (with shades of Clive Barker Reanimator Twilight Zone). The player's character - wise-cracking in the style of Ash from the Evil Dead films - wanders corridors plastered with posters advertising sterilization (promising "satisfaction at our nurses' hands") dissection ("after a lifetime of sex and drugs find your final pleasure with a pathologist") and virtual-reality murder. Here he finds a slew of butchered corpses (remarking "nice tits!" he seems enamored of one body-bag-clad young-lady in particular) a number of distasteful characters (whom he variously argues with insults or beats up) and a series of clues - both to the nature of the evil that overshadows the city and also to the character's own identity. Midnight Nowhere is a horror-adventure game with 150 locations packed with fiendish puzzles. The game fills two CDs and the developer estimates that the game will take 48 hours to play - but many of the puzzles are extremely difficult and the game could take much longer. A simple point-and-click interface allows the player to guide the character around a sumptuously pre-rendered world collecting items and clues in classic adventure-game style. The complexity of the game is in the puzzles for which walk-throughs will be made available by the release date.