#The medium game review skin#

It’s recommended that you experience the game in the dark with gamepad and headphones.

#The medium game review skin#

It’s subtle terror slowly seeps through your skin over 10 hours of playtime that relentlessly exposes you to a chilling atmosphere and nightmarish visuals. Instead, the game offers horror for grown-ups.

It avoids cheap gimmicks to shock and frighten. The Medium doesn’t resort to jump scares, choppy editing or lengthy wades through sordid torture porn territory. Bloober’s latest is mature and polished in every department. The Medium is hands down the most sophisticated effort yet from Bloober Team, the Polish developers who’ve made their name with horror games like Layers of Fear, Observer (rereleased last year as a next-gen Redux) and Blair Witch. Oh, and a ravenous “something” that continues to prowl the ruins. That means heading to the abandoned forest resort of Niwa, a place with a bloody past, and as many secrets as anguished ghosts. A mysterious phone call, though, on the worst day of her life, promises answers, about Marianne’s gifts, and a lifelong vision that has plagued her – of a girl being murdered. Marianne can exist in both planes simultaneously, and until you step into her shoes, the young woman has primarily used her “gift” to help souls move on. In The Medium, you play as Marianne, a powerful psychic who acts as a bridge between the real world and its dark mirror equivalent, the spirit realm. Out this week for PC and Xbox Series X|S, this new third-person psychological horror game is moody, frequently disturbing, and highly cinematic. If any of these names stir up feelings of skin-crawling satisfaction, tonally-similar The Medium needs to be on your Must Play list. Since this is a game review, let’s name drop a few others: