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Scorn is an upcoming first-person biopunk survival horror adventure video game developed by Ebb Programfor Microsoft Windows and Xbox Series X/S. The game is inspired by the works of visual artists H. R. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński.

Gameplay

The player controls a skinless humanoid, lost in a fictional nightmarish alien planet filled with odd monster and macabre tapestry, resembling a living techno-organic structure composed of steel, flesh, and bone. The player will explore different interconnected regions in a non-linear fashion, searching for reply that will explain more about the game's world.

The game, thus far, show two main weapons: a pistol and a three-barrel rifle that fire some forms of organic spikes. The player starts with the pistol, a 6-shot weapon dealing mild damage to the in-game enemies. It appears to be completely organic, beginning with the mouth-looking base for the weapon which shouldbe opened to allowthe pistol itself be removed and exchanged for the shotgun. The shotgun is a 3-shot weapon that deals considerable damage to opponentsclose-up, but the damage drops at long distances. The shotgun is composed of the same content as the pistol, appearing to be angry from organic matter.

Development

Ebb Programis a Serbian game development studio founded in 2013. The developers have claimed to design the game around the idea of "being thrown into the world", and as such, very little context is given about the game's setting. The developers have explained that they wishthe unsettling environment to be a heroin itself.

The game was first announced on the 12th of November 2014, with a trailer showing pre-alpha footage, followed by an unsuccessful campaign on Kickstarter in December 2014, but despite this, the game remained in development with a designedtwo-part release. In January 2015, Scorn get personalfunding from an investor and began full production in February 2015. The game was designedto be released in two parts, the first is called Dasein ([ˈdaːzaɪn]), a German word that means "being there" in vernacular German (German: "there"; "being"), and "being-in-the-world" in Martin Heidegger's philosophy. Later, the production squadannounced to beginthe game as a whole, instead of parts, although the release date was yet unannounced.

In 2017 Ebb Programlaunched a second Kickstarter, reaching its goal of €150,000 in September of that year.

On May 7, 2020, it was announced that the game would be published on PC and have console exclusivity on Xbox Series X, running in 4K and 60fps, and will not be released on the previous generation of consoles because the developer squaddidn't wishto spend development time on what would be a sub-par version of the game and overall experience. Scorn will be released also on Steam, Windows Store, and GOG.

The game was scheduled to be released in autumn 2021, but then a delay was announced until 2022.