WORLD OF HORROR News

• a new additional action, PREPARING FOR INVESTIGATION, will equip all playable characters with their new unique signature items like VANITY MIRROR, KIRIE'S BAG or ANATOMY BOOK and more
  
• new mystery: FREAKISH FABLE OF THE FRIGHTENING FLOOD will take the players on a rescue mission to a village slowly disappearing under the water. Drenched clothes and mud will be the least of their worries...
  
• new character: something Terrible is stalking the HUNTED HEIRESS, and with each passing day, its presence is getting nearer and nearer. Can you save SHIOKAWA before it catches you?
  
• additional enemies for each location, including TAPEWORM SALARYMAN, HUMAN LANTERN and more
  
• new curses, injuries, and town status effects including BLOOD MOON, CURFEW, HEART OF DARKNESS, and more
  

• This content update focuses on the unfortunate people of SHIOKAWA and the city's dark secrets.
  
• The newly reworked CITY PLANNING feature will allow players to customize their game and select new additional actions.
  
• Two new characters: a truly cursed WITCH and the EX-CULTIST on the run join the character roster, bringing it to eleven playable heroes, each with unique perks and abilities.
  
• This upgrade introduces character-exclusive events exploring their backstories and their role in the story. This is the biggest batch of new events since the initial release.
  
• Additionally, two new mysteries will have the unsuspecting characters take care of a weird friend with a dark secret and explore the seemingly abandoned mansion full of grotesque paintings.
  
• A new game mode CHALLENGES will test the skills of experienced players, placing them in the pre-selected playthroughs, each having unique gameplay mechanics, forcing them to change their strategies.
  

• This content update comes with a reworked timeline system
  
• Timelines will determine the endings of certain mysteries and encounters you get during your playthrough
  
• Additionally, two new difficulties have been added: SCEPTIC and HARBINGER OF DOOM, allowing you to make your runs both slightly easier and slightly harder
  
• Happy and safe Halloween!

• 0.9.18: modding update!
  

0.9.17

• you can select all difficulties on character's screen
  
• new palette added
  
• Moriko's fifth outfit fix'd
  
• scissor: correct string for the ritual's first move
  
• added information about the timeline on the ending screen
  
• household: increased the width of the ending text
  
• MONUMENT's description shouldn't cause visual glitches now
  
• SCEPTIC: one less mystery as intended
  
• activity playthrough setting sets the difficulty to sceptic as said
  
• corrected the number of endings visible in the mystery board screen to reflect new halloween content
  
• fixed the upgrade screen crash
  
• fixed the nice ring
  
• removed discount opinion from shops that shouldn't have them
  
• fixed vending machine
  
• festival mystery: crash fixed
  
• scissor mystery: crash fixed
  
• Moriko's outfit fixed
  

World of Horror, the Apple IIe-style horror game based on the artwork of manga artist Junji Ito, has a well-timed update out that adds some Halloween goodies. The update adds new outfits for the main characters, as well as new endings for all the currently available missions.

While World of Horror is still in development, it's available in Steam Early Access (where it's currently discounted 13%) and Xbox Game Pass Game Preview form at the moment, and there's already plenty of unsettling cosmic horror to find. Each investigation in the game has randomised roguelike encounters, so you'll never be able to chart a consistent path through. Now, with the Halloween update, there are new endings to discover for each mystery, and you can be sure they'll be suitably gruesome - even with the lo-fi '80s manga graphics.

You'll also notice new costumes for each of the game's playable characters - which is a funny thing to add to a game so dedicated to a visual style that predates downloadable horse armour by a few decades. Hey, this is cosmic horror - time has no real meaning in World of Horror.

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