Blackwater Town lights its Ghost Festival night with lanterns, bonfires and the dead
A Chinese folk horror story of choices from xiaohei&Lulu, set on the night a town's dead come back, with a free demo out now on Steam.
By Nell Brannigan, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
Two doors stand open in the title art for Blackwater Town, and the hand on the left one is yours. Beyond it is a moonlit courtyard of grey flagstones, and the people in it are not right. One crouches on all fours. Another stands too tall and too still, hair in a topknot, arms hanging. The moon is small and white above the roof tiles, and it lights almost nothing. That framing tells you a fair amount about xiaohei&Lulu's game. It is a Chinese folk horror story set in a fictional town during the Zhongyuan Festival, the Ghost Festival, on the night corpse demons come down on it without warning...