In recent years, horror games have seen a tremendous resurgence. Once threatened with becoming a bygone subgenre incorporated into the world of third-person shooters, the survival horror game has once again found a place in the market. This was partly down to a huge boom in independent horror titles, which have been propelled to the top of Steam rankings by the success of YouTube Let’s Play stars such as PewDiePie. However, some of these games are not without criticism, with gamers complaining that they are nothing more than jump scares, or the equivalent of a digital haunted house ride. That’s where STASIS intends to buck the trend. The result of a successful Kickstarter campaign from 2013, the horror-themed sci-fi adventure from developer The Brotherhood aims to focus less of cheap scares, instead giving the player nightmares through tension, atmosphere, and plot. 
It has to be said that The Brotherhood, which is a two man development team of Chris & Nic Bischoff, has done a tremendous job in building an uncomfortable setting. STASIS starts the player on a seemingly abandoned space ship, almost derelict and falling apart at the seams. It’s a setting that will be familiar for any gamer who has a penchant for space-based horror, with tones of the original Dead Space, cult classic System Shock 2, and in particular the Alien franchise. The similarities also go into the immediate story. The player is cast into the role of John, a man who wakes up from a stasis pod on the Groomlake research vessel with nothing but bloodstains on the floor for company. Players will soon discover that the Groomlake, which is owned by the mysterious Cayne corporation, has been carrying out morally dubious research in the confines of space. Within this terrifying setting, John must try to find his wife and daughter. Read the complete & exclusive review by Clicking here
