WORLD OF HORROR News

The WORLD OF HORROR Official Soundtrack is now available for purchase on Steam! Please enjoy this incredible chiptune tour de force in both MP3 and FLAC formats, containing 20 tracks composed by Joseph "Qwesta" Bailey and Garoslaw.


For those who've already purchased the full game, for a limited time we're offering the ability to "complete the bundle", which provides WOH owners with the OST at a 15% discount! The OST and the bundle may be purchased from the full game's store page, or you can check out the bundle's store page here!

Also in time for Halloween: our merchandise partner Fangamer has expanded their collection of spine-chillingly good swag. Check a look at Fangamer's full WORLD OF HORROR collection below, and visit https://fanga.me/r/world-of-horror-collection for purchase.


The newest items include a new T-shirt featuring the OTHERWORLD, and a snazzy lenticular pin featuring everyone's favorite rioter, Miku!


As always, thanks for your support of WORLD OF HORROR!

Delightfully strange and just generally delightful game World of Horror has finally released, leaving early access development on October 19 2023. It celebrates with a deliciously good trailer freshly scored by composer Joseph Bailey that shows off what's best about World of Horror: scared teenagers trying to save the day, moody scenes of dark landscapes, and terrifying critters coming up out of absolutely nowhere to murder you...
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----------MAJOR CHANGES

• kicking SHIOKAWA SCHOOL is no longer allowed, you hooligan
  
• DISCIPLINE perk effects disabled in the lighthouse
  
• ENDLESS MODE: storage bug fixed
  
• HISTORY CLUB: a new delivery of spells pushed the brain worms back where they belong
  
• combat 'ghost' actions that messed up the action bar banished
  
• ZHECTAST unintentional bonus stamina damage removed
  

----------MINOR CHANGES:

• the text box in the lighthouse increased
  
• VENDING MACHINE: event text updated to reflect the actual reward
  
• RITUAL-type spells now correctly display ATH-YOLAZSTH'S GAZE effect
  
• two enemies got their type updated to reflect their description
  
• some of the old art implemented back as alternatives in the timeline B
  
• RIP new Aiko (2023-2023)
  

----------BALANCE CHANGES:

• POLICE STATION: correct (12->11) amount of EXP is taken for sharing the information
  
• EXORCISM reward lowered (20->15)
  
• CHECK BOOK cost lowered (6->4)
  
• MASOCHISTIC price lowered (3->2)
  

----------TRANSLATION CHANGES:

• [kr] JURI perk's name changed to avoid duplicates
  
• [en] HEAVY DUTY FLASHLIGHT displays correctly without a 10px empty space
  
• [en] YASHIRO's name displays correctly now
  
• [en] various typos fixed"
  

Up next:
Proper Steam integration

WORLD OF HORROR fans have been through a lot, we know! Through thick and thin, you've been waiting patiently for a long time for the game’s v1.0 release. We're stoked to announce the game has finally left Steam Early Access today, and we are also able to offer everyone the original Early Access price one more time as part of today's Steam Daily Deal!

To celebrate, witness this incredible (and incredibly vicious) animated trailer, handcrafted for us by the amazingly talented Karl Sia and scored by the game's composer Joseph "Qwesta" Bailey:

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A side note for players looking to visit Shiokawa on Switch and PlayStation: The game's digital console releases in North America and Europe have been delayed to Thursday, October 26th.

The Ysbryd Games team and panstasz have been laboring until the last possible moment to try and clear the necessary certification requirements and paperwork in time for our originally announced release date of October 19th. However, certain DOOM got the better of us, and we'll need one more run to finally clear these obstacles in North America and European regions - but we’ll get everyone to Shiokawa in time for Halloween!

Now, please savor your time in WORLD OF HORROR as it was truly intended to be!

Being as much of an insufferable, online-but-ultimately-in-quite-a-basic-way person as I am, I'm a Junji Ito girlie. The horror manga artist has an immediately recognisable style that intersects detailed, line heavy art with strange and upsetting concepts, and some of his short stories have acquired a sort of semi-memetic status ("This is my hole! It was made for me!"). If you're at all familiar with Junji Ito's work you will look at unforgiving almost-text-adventure World Of Horror and go "Huh, that's inspired by Junji Ito."

This isn't just because it looks like his work but rendered in MSPaint, or because it contains, just, direct references to it, but because of the whole vibe. You encounter face-sloughing-off kinds of monsters and vengeful spirits inspired by Japanese folkloric yokai, but also weirdo janitors doing stuff like turning the swim team into mermaids in a kind of pervier version of Tusk. At the same time, there's a streak of the Lovecraftian in play to keep it nice and legally distinct, as each self-contained run at the titular world is an attempt to save your town from destruction at the hands of an Old God (they earn the leaden thud of the capital letters). You will fail a lot. But isn't failure part of the fun!? Imagine that enthusiastic question as a big spoonful of marmite popped into your mouth.

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