You’re a 12-year-old kid going for an eye test when the clinic suddenly disappears. Instead of the optometrist’s office, you’re dropped into a strangely familiar world inside an autorefractor machine.
That’s the premise of Farsight, an upcoming liminal horror game from Studio Noori, which is spearheaded by the ex-lead developer behind episodes 4 and 5 of anthology horror series Fears to Fathom.
As someone who’s been wearing glasses since around age seven, this one hits close to home. The familiar environments within the eye exam machine – a hot air balloon drifting over endless green fields, and an all-too-perfect-looking house in the distance.
It’s not a Backrooms game, but it absolutely sits in that same corner of liminal horror that’s been everywhere lately.
You’re not completely alone in this machine either. You’ve got a 1990s-style handheld device that lets you capture things your eyes can’t normally see, alongside a walkie-talkie keeping you in contact with a friend on the outside.
But something else is in there with you. Figures that stand just far enough away that you can’t quite confirm what they are.
The reveal trailer, debuted at the Horror Game Awards Showcase, leans heavily into that slow, creeping discomfort rather than loud scares, whilst showing off lots of the environments you’ll navigate.
Check out the game’s Steam page, or watch the trailer below:
