Being a detective is a tedious job. The tension and difficulty only rise when a human life having been taken at the hands of another is involved. While this is an expected scenario for detectives to come across, something least expected is conducting an investigation in a haunted house.
Developer Cauchemar has added this element to detective work in Rehaunted.
Play as detective Connor Raines, who showed up to a crime scene expecting a typical, run-of-the-mill night at work. A woman was found dead on her couch in her home, her body left to lay with a missing piece of flesh where her neck is. For Raines, this seems as a textbook murder, his team and him have what should be a straight forward case. However, there is more than meets the eye to this open and shut case.
Where the team believes they found their answer waiting for them on a couch quickly becomes the source of more questions than they previously thought. Treading further into the house, the team uncovers a gruesome scene; buckets of blood spread about the house, human body parts just as scattered as the blood. Each horror undiscovered seems to contradict every clue previously came across, leaving the team at square one repeatedly. Worst of all, though the house feels abandoned, it never feels empty. This is not just a simple feeling that can be brushed off, as there is a very real threat that keeps a watchful eye on the detectives traversing the house.
Players can take on this tedious job, walking through the house with various detective tools such as a UV flashlight, a magnifier, and a camera. Each clue site will require its own unique form of investigating, the UV flashlight and camera flash can reveal clues hidden to the naked eye. The magnifier can look deeper into clues to give players a better understanding of what happened. Your interpretation of clues guides how the investigation plays out, the walkie-talkie that will be accessible during gameplay is a vital tool to choose what to tell your partner. Upon doing this, a dialog selection option will come up, truly leaving the fate of the murdered young woman in your hands.
As if the crime scene itself wasn’t enough work, players will also have to keep looking over their shoulder for the paranormal creature stalking them. It quickly becomes apparent that this thing has something to do with the woman’s death, and it certainly wants you to suffer the same fate.
Rehaunted will be available soon on Steam, and you can add it to your wishlist.