GameZebo: The year is 1891. Anthony Beechwood, alone in his mansion’s attic, hangs himself. A final letter that he has mailed to his lifelong friend, J. Devitt, arrives with only the phrase “Videte ne quis sciat” scrawled across the page. Devitt recognizes this code from their time spent together at a school for scientific study, and that Beechwood must be in trouble. He leaves immediately to find his friend and offer his support, putting in motion the first events of The Last Door: Chapter One – The Letter.
The Last Door proves that a game doesn’t need high-resolution visuals to pull players into a truly disturbing atmosphere.
PixlBit | "I’ve kind of become the de facto horror guy around PixlBit, and that suits me just fine. For the longest time, I felt that the key to a great horror video game was graphical fidelity. Resident Evil was chilling for me when I was sixteen, but the original release doesn’t do it for me anymore. Surely, it takes bleeding edge graphics to terrify, right? Well, not necessarily. I learned that with Corpse Party, a game that chilled me to the bone on multiple occasions. That game looked like it came from the 16-bit era, and it was very effective at making bedtime a dicey proposition. So what would happen if someone made a horror game that used an art style from even earlier? Would it be scary at all? In the case of The Last Door from Spanish developer The Game Kitchen, you get a macabre and haunting horror title that gets in your head and stays there."
Kickstarter really is a wonderful initiative, and The Last Door is an ideal example as to why.
