Physical edition of indie horror game 'VILE: Exhumed' announced
Final Girl Games has announced a limited physical edition of indie horror game VILE: Exhumed. Half of the proceeds will go to the Canadian nonprofit Red Door Family Shelter.
Indie horror game VILE: Exhumed, created by solo developer Cara Cadaver under the Final Girl Games banner, is getting a physical edition. The limited run was announced recently, and the first 100 copies will be individually numbered.
The game is an immersive mystery set on the desktop of an abandoned 1990s PC. Players investigate the disappearance of adult film actress Candy Corpse by looking through locked folders, old forums, cryptic messages and pixelated media. The result is a found-footage horror story centered on parasocial dynamics and violent entitlement.
The physical edition costs $9.99 and includes an eight-page booklet, a classic jewel case, hand-written labels and an archival quality CD-ROM with the full game and no DRM. Half of the proceeds go to Red Door Family Shelter, a Canadian non-profit that offers emergency housing and support. The digital version remains available as a free download with a pay-what-you-want option, and those funds are split equally between Final Girl Games and Red Door.
In an interview with Engadget, Cadaver said the physical release feels like a second chance for the game, which was involved in Steam's censorship campaign last summer. She also explained that the game grew out of a period of frustration and a desire to reclaim agency over her own body, including photographing herself covered in blood. She said she personally played every female character shown on screen and created the practical gore effects.
Cadaver said the biggest obstacle for smaller developers is other people's time, given the flood of new releases every month. She praised publisher DreadXP for not shying away from difficult subject matter and for believing that many kinds of horror deserve to be shared. The game's tagline: 'Play an interactive video nasty.'
