A stitched rabbit, a split dress and a house that sours before Christmas dinner
Inloop Studios wraps a little girl's festive nightmares in scan lines, candle stumps and a hand-drawn dialogue box that knows exactly what it is doing.
By Wren Ashby, 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 cover art for Shadows of Christmas Eve puts a small girl in a moonlit clearing, clutching a stuffed rabbit with green crosses stitched where its eyes should be. Her dress is split straight down the middle, one half red and one half green, as if somebody ran out of wrapping paper halfway round. She has huge white-ringed eyes and the face of a child who has just been told it is bedtime. Candles burn down on stumps either side of her, a string of fairy lights sags from a pole, and an old lamp post glows pink. It is a Christmas card, very nearly. A nightmare with a dinner deadline Inloop St...