Rides with strangers is a detail oriented, terror-fueled horror game that thrusts the players into a dark landscape as the character Ellora, a young woman, trapped in the middle of nowhere with no possible way to call for help. Being stranded forces her to hitchhike, but this isn’t a tale with a happy ending at least from the demo.
Always short of a few bob and looking for something a bit different, each week I scour the internet for fun, interesting or just plain curious Indie Freebies. This week’s highlighted titles are: Ride with Strangers, a tense experience built around hitch-hiking with potential murderers; Pigsodus, a charming “pigcelart” adventure platformer; and Dead Zombie Land, a fun little arcade game about exploding zombies.
Rides With Strangers is an unsettling, first-person horror game that takes the killer combination of multitasking and jump scares as popularized by the Five Night’s At Freddy series and twists it to match a new creepy scenario: hitchhiking.
