Developer Bloober Team has announced that its superb brain-hacking sci-fi detective horror Observer will be heading to Switch “soon”.
Observer, which released on PC, PS4, and Xbox One last August, unfolds in 2084, in a dystopian version of Kraków, Poland – or rather in one of its dilapidated apartment buildings, to be more specific. Players take on the role of Daniel Lazarski (voiced by Rutger Hauer), a so-called Observer detective who finds himself in the area, having received a message from his estranged son. Needless to say, bad things ensue.
Like Bloober Team’s wonderfully inventive haunted house horror Layers of Fear, Observer knows its way around a set-piece. While half of the game offers a slow-paced, but engaging investigation of the mouldering (yet exquisitely realised) apartment block – questioning its never-seen and often slightly unhinged tenants from the other side of a closed door – Observer’s bravado moments plunge players into disorientating, visually astonishing dreamscapes, as they hack into suspects’ brains and relive their memories to uncover the truth.
Source: Eurogamer Brilliant memory-hacking sci-fi horror Observer is heading to Switch