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Downward Spiral: Horus Station

Downward Spiral: Horus Station

Released: 5/31/2018

Downward Spiral: Horus Station takes players through a lost vessel abandoned by its crew with a complete focus on visual storytelling for single player or two player online co-op. Players will have to piece together the plot through observation and interpretation as they navigate the derelict space station's environmental storytelling, accompanied by the electronic ambient soundtrack composed by platinum selling HIM frontman Ville Valo. Solving the mystery of the space station will require the player to choose to engage or explore. In engage mode eliminate threats using the ship's maintenance hardware - like bolt throwers, thrusters, rail guns, grappling magnet and arc welders. In explore mode the stations threats will no longer be hostile, leaving the puzzles and atmosphere to find the truth of why Horus Station has been left drifting in space. In addition to Horus Station’s story campaign, there’s eight-player PvP and PvE multiplayer modes including Deathmatch and Horde. FEATURES: • Atmospheric and mysterious solo or two player online co-op zero-g sci-fi thriller • A complete environmental storytelling experience without dialogue or cinematics • Totally new way to experience movement in zero g • Electronic ambient soundtrack composed by platinum selling HIM frontman Ville Valo • Range of bolt throwers, rail guns, grappling magnets and electro magnetic devices to use against threats • Optional Explorer mode that completely removes threats leaving the story and puzzles • 8 player zero g deathmatch and horde modes

Downward Spiral: Horus Station takes players through a lost vessel abandoned by its crew with a complete focus on visual storytelling for single player or two player online co-op. Players will have to piece together the plot through observation and interpretation as they navigate the derelict space station's environmental storytelling, accompanied by the electronic ambient soundtrack composed by platinum selling HIM frontman Ville Valo. Solving the mystery of the space station will require the player to choose to engage or explore. In engage mode eliminate threats using the ship's maintenance hardware - like bolt throwers, thrusters, rail guns, grappling magnet and arc welders. In explore mode the stations threats will no longer be hostile, leaving the puzzles and atmosphere to find the truth of why Horus Station has been left drifting in space. In addition to Horus Station’s story campaign, there’s eight-player PvP and PvE multiplayer modes including Deathmatch and Horde. FEATURES: • Atmospheric and mysterious solo or two player online co-op zero-g sci-fi thriller • A complete environmental storytelling experience without dialogue or cinematics • Totally new way to experience movement in zero g • Electronic ambient soundtrack composed by platinum selling HIM frontman Ville Valo • Range of bolt throwers, rail guns, grappling magnets and electro magnetic devices to use against threats • Optional Explorer mode that completely removes threats leaving the story and puzzles • 8 player zero g deathmatch and horde modes

Downward Spiral: Horus Station takes players through a lost vessel abandoned by its crew with a complete focus on visual storytelling for single player or two player online co-op. Players will have to piece together the plot through observation and interpretation as they navigate the derelict space station's environmental storytelling, accompanied by the electronic ambient soundtrack composed by platinum selling HIM frontman Ville Valo. Solving the mystery of the space station will require the player to choose to engage or explore. In engage mode eliminate threats using the ship's maintenance hardware - like bolt throwers, thrusters, rail guns, grappling magnet and arc welders. In explore mode the stations threats will no longer be hostile, leaving the puzzles and atmosphere to find the truth of why Horus Station has been left drifting in space. In addition to Horus Station’s story campaign, there’s eight-player PvP and PvE multiplayer modes including Deathmatch and Horde. FEATURES: • Atmospheric and mysterious solo or two player online co-op zero-g sci-fi thriller • A complete environmental storytelling experience without dialogue or cinematics • Totally new way to experience movement in zero g • Electronic ambient soundtrack composed by platinum selling HIM frontman Ville Valo • Range of bolt throwers, rail guns, grappling magnets and electro magnetic devices to use against threats • Optional Explorer mode that completely removes threats leaving the story and puzzles • 8 player zero g deathmatch and horde modes

Critics
62
Steam
79

Score Breakdown

61.7

Critic Average

17 reviews

79

Steam User Score

136 reviews

N/A

Metacritic User Score

Less than 20 reviews

Disparity Breakdown

Steam Disparity
-17.7
Metacritic Disparity
N/A
Combined Disparity
-17.7

Average of both sources

Review Timing

7 launch window (41%)10 late (59%)