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Want to escape the big city? Forget estate agents, simply hang around till a mysterious old man offers to sell you his absolutely-not-cursed farm, and you’re good to go! That’s the premise behind the newly-announced Dread Fields, which promises to be a delightful, entirely sedate farming simulator.
We’re kidding, of course. Dread Fields’ pastures are haunted to hell. Though, to be fair, moving to a place with a cutesy name is no guarantee of safety; just look at Raccoon City. In the case of Dread Fields, you have to deal with the unwanted attentions of some The Shining-style female spectres.
That’s on top of all your regular duties and pastimes, which include feeding the animals, milking cows, fishing, cleaning the house and so on. When night falls, you’ll also have to keep the fireplace burning, to keep the dead women away. No pressure.
Developer Podoba Interactive describes Dread Fields as a slow-burn rural horror which will deliver “loneliness, isolation, and mounting background anxiety.” We’re certainly suckers for countryside frights, not least because we’ve been binging folk horror movies (we can heartily recommend Lord of Misrule).
Podoba’s previous outing, Back to Hearth, which inspired this game, is ranked Very Positive on Steam, so we trust they know what they’re doing. Dread Fields doesn’t currently have a release date, but you can wishlist it on Steam right now.
