Bodies are just machines. This idea, at the centre of Alien artist HR Giger’s work, becomes the thesis of Scorn, a firstperson survival-horror puzzler that borrows liberally from Giger’s distinctive biomechanical surrealist designs. Here, you interface with machines via orifices, devices made of bone are grafted onto flesh, and weapons are fuelled by blood. Serbian developer Ebb Software brings this unsettling world to life with real aplomb, rendering everything organic as a resource for a nightmarish factory. It’s just a shame that what lies beneath that strikingly grisly exterior feels so worn-out and familiar.
does at least put its best foot forward. A smooth transition from the main menu takesstrongest assets. More than its size, this first challenge overwhelms with the sheer number of inscrutable machines, almost none of which seems to work. There’s something immediately captivating in that opening – apromise of entering something truly unknown that is seldom found in games.
