SCREAM JAM 2024 gHost's Choice -
Games set in a single room always have a difficult task of providing the player with enough freedom and gameplay to sustain interest. This insidiously bleak game does the opposite: the player, trapped in their basement by a blast, is constantly taunted about their own confinement. The narrative context paces the player through the absurd and futile nature of their survival situation. The game ends abruptly, but not without a well-earned scare that calls back to a darker and more interesting horror of being trapped and surrounded by death. It’s an interesting, thought-provoking game that creates a setting atypical to the mythological tone of indie horror.
Thank you for submitting Concrete Cries to SCREAM JAM 2024, and congratulations on being selected as one of the ten gHost's Choice entries for the jam!