Total Chaos is not the follow-up to five-star retro shooter Turbo Overkill I expected

Turbo Overkill, the previous game from one-person studio Trigger Happy, was a gloriously unsubtle shooter blaring with defiance and energy. But the follow up, Total Chaos, seems to be a very different beast. This is a psychological horror that involves creeping around corridors to find keys to unlock doors, while panicking internally about what’s about to jump out at you next. It has survival gauges to keep an eye on, and there’s a crafting system that lets you pick up wooden sticks and glue hammer heads to them, or make bandages from alcohol and tape you find. This is a game about surviving in an oppressive place, a game of atmosphere and strangeness. On the surface, the two games seem nothing alike.

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Source: Eurogamer.net