Parch

PARCH is a first person horror game.

You play as Charlie, a man in his 30s. On a road trip with his girlfriend Julie, they find an old abandoned ice cream-hut. After breaking in, Charlie is gassed by a security system and falls unconscious. He wakes up alone and confused in a cell, a loud noise is coming from the outside. He manages to escape the little room, and repairs an old car found in a nearby garage. He sets out into the night, and finds himself in an old abandoned park. His mind is set to find Julie.

Charlie is throughout the adventure overhelmed by confusion, loneliness, sadness and isolation. We will follow his emotions through the game by the words he mumbles to himself. Surroundings in the game involves a vast forest, a theme park, an old hotel, a dried out sea, a zoo, a big house, a maze of underground tunnels and a hospital.

The gameplay is pretty unique - you use inventories with your left hand, and weapons with your right. All the inventories are found in the world - the places where you can use an inventory are marked with a glowing blue cylinder. There are no monsters in Parch - it's not a shooter. You do meet some kind of being, who looks a lot like your supposedly kidnapped girlfriend, only she is mute and makes you do strange things. The weapons are things like remote controls, cameras and potato guns. Weapons are often used in conjunction with the inventories to solve puzzles and make progress in the game.