A lethal nun stalks you as you explore claustrophobic halls in Nun Massacre.
You’ve received a letter under bizarre circumstances, one telling your your daughter has fallen ill at your boarding school. Wondering why no one just called you over the phone, you set out to check on her. Then a storm rolls in. Then the road is blocked. Then a nun with bleeding eyes tries to stab you with a knife. You know, general good times.
Nun Massacre sets you loose in a complex array of uncomfortably-tight halls with a killer nun on your tail, and your job is to get away with as few holes in your body as you can manage. Doing so will require you get over the tense atmosphere its developers have worked to create, using the compact halls, quick-footed killer, and oppressive, clingy darkness to create a constant feeling of pressure on the player. It’s a crushing atmosphere that will have you wound tight, leading right up to the terrifying scream of your stalker that means she is on your tail.
Nun Massacre features a handful of filters to enhance the experience, with the black and white filter making the night feel even more impenetrable, and the static filter giving this surreal sense that reality is breaking down (while also looking like an ancient VHS). It’s the PSX look of the game – a sense of unreal geometry and a world broken at its edges – that really makes its horrors come together. While I’m not too impressed at the mental health jab at calling the nun “PSYCHOPATHIC”, it’s an incredible exercise in tension, if you have the constitution for it.
Nun Massacre is available for $4.95 on Itch.io or through supporting developers Puppet Combo on Patreon.
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