Otherside Tapes: Favela keeps its clock at 2pm while the sky goes black
A found-footage horror set in Favela das Almas, where lived-in rooms, tangled cables and a stubborn date stamp do most of the frightening.
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.
The date stamp in the corner of Otherside Tapes: Favela reads OUT. 24 2006, and every hour I can make out sits between two and three in the afternoon. The light disagrees. Some screenshots carry a sepia haze, some a heavy grey cloud, and others are full dark with streetlamps flaring against nothing. That mismatch suits the premise. Pulsatrix Studios, who also made Fobia and A.I.L.A., have built a first-person psychological horror game around Favela das Almas, and the Steam listing describes its setting as inspired by Brazilian favelas and local culture. In 2006 Cláudio da Silva, a content c...