There’s a treat in store for fans of Daniel Mullins’ dizzyingly inventive 2016 cult hit, Pony Island; the developer’s latest offering, genre-hopping murder mystery The Hex, is now available on Steam.
The Hex’s strange events unfold in the Six Pint Inn, a gloomy tavern “in a forgotten corner of the video game universe”. Six guests occupy the tavern – the Space Marine, Sorceress, Platformer, Fighter, Apocalypse Survivor, and First Person Perspective – and all is initially well. Until, that is, the proprietor receives a telephone call informing him that a murder is about to occur.
The inn’s occupants, explains Mullins, “are video game protagonists trying to escape their past… But The Six Pint Inn has a way of bringing back old memories.” This equates to playable flashbacks inspired by different gaming genres, and “by exploring these memories you may discover the identity of the murderer… or you may learn much darker secrets.”
Source: Eurogamer Pony Island dev's genre-hopping murder mystery The Hex is out now