Necrophosis - A Zdzislaw Beksinski Inspired Cosmic Horror Game From the Creator of The Shore (Alpha) 

Important note: for this video I've removed the dialogue. This is for several reasons (slows down the pace massively, hard to read text, poetic verses that don't add anything). However, the main reason I removed it is that hearing cosmic entities speak perfect English breaks the immersion in the world (hopefully it gets changed to something more inhuman in the full game). I hope you like the choice I made and understand my reasoning. I'm sure you're also interested in hearing the original dialogue though. So I've uploaded a separate video you can check out here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Lr1Aytx542E.html

Average day in Poland

Three parts Beksinski, two parts Giger, and one part Barlowe.

This is pretty much an adaptation of Beksinski paintings into a video game, what an outstanding work they did!

I feel like the world this establishes is a lot different than Scorn’s in tone - where exploring Scorn’s world is depressing and bleak, exploring Necrophosis’s world gives more of an macabre but wondrous vibe. Scorn was also more blatantly cold and malevolent, but Necrophosis seems oddly benevolent? Like, this world isn’t fleshy and evil, it’s just the nature of the thing

I dont think the country of Poland would appreciate uploading uncut footage from their tourism page straight to RU-vid.

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” - H.P. Lovecraft

Big thanks for playing our new game, we appreciate your support!

good bit of Giger here too, but much less so than the Beksinski. Kinda a reverse ratio to Scorn's balance of the two.

My Steam wishlist at this point is about 75% games inspired by Polish horror art, and I’m totally fine with that

I like to imagine that somewhere out there, there is a world like this. Where their alien culture is so heavy on beautifying death and decay that their landscape looks reflects it. Giant skyscrapers carved from mountains and idol lined paths chipped from canyons. It truly is its own beauty

It being a slow moving, slowly progressing, slow animation walking sim, this seems like the kinda game I'll be watching people play. But not playing myself.

This game feels like its on another location in the Scorn universe, it looks good

"oh"- my response to pretty much everything.

I've woken up in worse places with worse entities not gonna lie.

When the angel said: "bop bo boo rop pooooo!", I felt that.

that looks soooooo much like scorn , even "character" design and such

Zdzislaw Beksinski is one of if not my most favorite painter in horror themes. I even made a presentation on him. I hope to achieve such level of artistry someday. His usage of colors were truly masterful

This looks neat. Perhaps a bit too derivative of Scorn. Yes, I know they're both inspired by the same art (and I'm a huge Beksinski fan), but what I mean is the design of the character, the initial setup (being dropped onto the ground with similar animations), etc. After watching the unlisted video, I can see why the dialogue killed your immersion. I actually really like the vague poetry. Seems like it would be a cool thing to unpack, but the giant spooky monster man is really just a british dude, and that does kill it a little bit.

I know this Painter because of a video by "semydeus" (Or demygod) about cursed paintings And now I'm loving this polish painter works

2:38 - Understandable. Have a nice day.

Being a sci-fi book writer, I can relate when you wrote: "the main reason I removed it is that hearing cosmic entities speak perfect English totally breaks my immersion in the world." That is one of the main reasons I hate when Hollywood adapts ancient languages to english, dumbing-down the dialogue so "everyone could watch equally". Totally un-immersive. If you are gonna talk about aliens, they probably won't speak english, but some sort of direct mind communication that do not even use words in order to be understood.

"we have scorn at home" scorn at home:

Death metal album covers in video game form... I'm sold!

And this is where you end up when you trust you travel agency too much...

Watched about half of the video, then thought better of it and downloaded the demo to experience it myself. Not into walking sims but Beksinski is one of my favorite artists and the demo was a beautifully grim journey. I definitely look forward to playing the full game.

Wow. This demo was stunningly beautiful. I can't wait to see the finished product!

You had me at Zdzisław!

Man, it's so good to see biopunk gaining more space in the gaming world, I hope more games with this style are released in the future.

You had me at "Beksinski." This looks gorgeous! I immediately went to steam to wishlist it.

Reminds me of the ending of the Astartes-shortfilm (40k). Where he end up on a different planet/Warp/dimension. I like a plot to my cosmic horror! ;)

5:55 that "nope" there is the most fitting reaction to what you just experienced.

the most beautiful thing I have seen so far this year👌✨️

This revived my angelic sanity again thank you for playing thi game man the one time i didn't feel grossed out but healed asf my goodness

Scorn: "You ever met my cousin Necrophosis?"

The entire background is like a fever dream

Unlike most people think Scorn was inspired by H.R. Giger it was Zdzislaw Beksinski- i followed the Scorn development quiet a while. I was so impressed by his art, i bought his Artbook hardcover. This game therefore seems so similar.

Scorn 2 looks neat

So far, this demo seems pretty promising. I like how Beksinski's art is integrated here. All seems very familiar, yet very alien at the same time. I personally like to imagine this is not an alien world, but something like Limbo/Purgatory since almost every character represented here is human-looking, there is a mention of Ozymandias (Greek name for Ramesses II) and Khnum (Egyptian god of Nile flood and creator of humanity), and that caped entity stated that the place is "a reliquary of the past" while showing skyscraper-like buildings looming over the horizon. Think of it as Agony game, but it went with soulslike dialogue, with actually comprehensible (and vaguely friendly) environment and without seggsual content. It's probably the reason why characters in game speak English and in poetry too.

That space jockey was a lil silly lol

Polish Scorn sure hits different.

Looks amazing! I hope for the best!

At 6:36 I immediately said, "Oh, that's JUST the Space Jockey from Alien."

That one guy had a very, very nice hat, I’d wear it. I’ve been looking for a new bodacious church hat to make a statement.

I'm fine with just a non-violent walking simulator with some story thrown in with this world. It looks gorgeous.

19:42 He just rag dolls when he falls! XD

"I should have never smoked that shit. Now I'm in Zdislaw Beksinski's painting"

HOLY! I love the sound design in this game. They sound all too gross. I love it.

This game is so atmospheric and beautiful! As a fan of Giger's work, this is a treat

Florida is looking rough these days.

I'm having aprehension about this game due to how close it looks like Scorn. Not because Scorn is a pinacle, but because nobody likes total copycats- you can be inspired by the same artwork and still be distinct and unfortuantelly right now Necrophosis has way too many assets that look like taken stright from Scorn.

Video about game inspired by polish artist, and video length is 21:37? This dude knows EXACTLY what he's doing 😂

Oh so this is where scorn guy would have gone to if he managed to get through that portal at the end.

That looks amazing!

This is awesome, what Scorn should've been.

Indika breakes it all with a miniture old lady in underware, jumping out of mouth of the saint mother

Scorn: started *Blasting This: Grab n’ Go

feels quite a bit like scorn but without you able to defend yourself and more focused on cosmic horror

Hanging out with the Tomb Kings.

This is amazing!

This looks amazing

Congrats to the devs! Would love to see more of this for sure. My feedbacks are, atmosphere could be much more dense, and stronger. Also, I might not be your target audience but for gameplay, in it's current state it feels like you invite the player to constantly find puzzle pieces to progress one small step further, I think it would be much better if we slowly progressed as we "got lost" in the world and atmosphere to experience it while being subtly led through the environment. To me otherwise just leads the focus to finding the next piece of puzzle, where I can find it, etc, rather than paying attention the world. But since in the end it all comes to what kind of a game you want to make and for that, it seems you are doing great ^^ I just think it has a lot of potential in the other end of the gameplay spectrum too, just like Journey :)

you instantly had me at zdzislaw inspired

Interesting project. Definitely gives Agony / Scorn vibes. I have to say, I'm a little bit disappointed you cut out all the dialogue because without it, it seems like several puzzles just don't have any kind of reward to them. I'd be interested to hear what the world has to say about itself, even if it is 'telling' rather than 'showing'.

I definitely felt immersed in Beksinski's world.

When app buffers to a much lower resolution everytime you want to watch a video at 480, 720 or 1080.

I cannot believe i live in the age of the Scornlike

Not sure this is my kind of game, but the visuals look neat, and the music is S tier.

Cosmic horror game based on absolutely fantastic art? Yes please!

Looks interesting, but I hope this be better than Scorn

Heavy giger influence. Love it

It was a really unsettling experience, but as a fan of Scorn I'm all for it and eager to see more.

I liked The Shore, interested in seeing how this develops

Bro nailed it with video lenght 💀😭

Let's not forget Vomitoreum when we speak about Zdzislaw Beksinski-inspired games 🙏 Vomitoreum is an absolute masterpiece, both gameplay-wise and visually

This, is pretty close to what I picture in viewing the nightmare artists' work. 🖤🥠👾🐰

19:42 the ragdoll ... why is it so funny

I watch Beksinski's early 3d digital works and cannot stop thinking he would definetly try create something like this game if he would manage to get this game development tools.

Beautiful

Realy amazing!!! Aspecialy for indie game. I wonder how many efforts and time this game have consume

my favorite painter ever. if you like beksinski i suggest checking out his biopic "The Last Family" (2018)

I see the devs were a fan of Scorn too.

That was gorgeous😍👏

a work of art.

Coś tak czułem że w to zagrasz👍

Seems lika spiritual sequel of Scorn with more Beksinski vibes with a touch of Barlowe. Seems lovely

This game is unique! Congratulations to the developer! 🎆

looks so cool

50 seconds in and im really hoping there's no tanks of electric semen.

@ the end: the problem with being too open-minded is that you might lose your head, as demonstrated here

The music starting @16:40 is very calming / mysterious / ambient and somewhat religious at the same time. Would very well fit the warriors who are born to protect the the legacy of the god emperor.

Thank you for removing the dialogue. Someone on a different video mentioned it, but the voices sound lifeless. Wouldn't be surprised if they were AI generated to be honest. Thinking on that now, that would make for an interesting trait for a monster that's supposed to invoke the uncanny valley.

I want more games with same aesthetic or artwork to this and scorn

Finaly a game made from his art. Truly beautiful in its own eerie way .

Can't wait Jerma to play this

Significantly lower quality and more derivative than scorn, but very very cool and I'm looking forward to it

oh hell yeah, downloading Scorn 2 demo now!

Incredible

I wholly appreciate what this game is trying to do

At least the Cenobite/Void orgy that is the landscape was inviting. Also, I think I need to clarify that I mean the game and not the movie when mentioning The Void.