Fans of Strange Scaffold and publisher Frosty Pop’s apocalyptic Life Eater have another reason to keep coming back to the game, as the much-anticipated Endless Mode is available now. Best of all, it’s a free update!
The new endless mode gives Life Eater players an arena to determine how long they can evade capture while delaying the end of the world. Collect score points called Zeal by building an airtight procedure around your sacrifices, investigate the lives of countless procedurally generated kidnapping targets, and survive as long as possible in your personal gauntlet of nightmares.
“We’re so excited to expand the playtime of Life Eater with a uniquely dark and intriguing systemic experience,” says Strange Scaffold founder Xalavier Nelson Jr. “You really just terrorize an entire city of people over the span of decades, now, and I can only hope that I don’t come to regret...
The new endless mode gives Life Eater players an arena to determine how long they can evade capture while delaying the end of the world. Collect score points called Zeal by building an airtight procedure around your sacrifices, investigate the lives of countless procedurally generated kidnapping targets, and survive as long as possible in your personal gauntlet of nightmares.
“We’re so excited to expand the playtime of Life Eater with a uniquely dark and intriguing systemic experience,” says Strange Scaffold founder Xalavier Nelson Jr. “You really just terrorize an entire city of people over the span of decades, now, and I can only hope that I don’t come to regret...
- 5/17/2024
- by Mike Wilson
- bloody-disgusting.com
Given how great 2023 was for game releases, there are undoubtedly some games that you missed. Looking past the major releases like Spider-Man 2, Alan Wake 2, Starfield, and Resident Evil 4, there were many titles released within the AA and indie space that may have flown under your radar. Below, we will highlight four titles that we reckon are well worth a second look if they passed you by the first time.
The Gap: The Best of the Mindf**k Games That You Missed Last Year
The Gap is a set in the future and follow a man called Joshua who is suffering from a degenerative illness which he must find a cure for. He is a neuroscientist, having dedicated his life to understanding the depths of the human mind. In his quest to find a cure for his illness, he manages to access an alternate reality in the hope that...
The Gap: The Best of the Mindf**k Games That You Missed Last Year
The Gap is a set in the future and follow a man called Joshua who is suffering from a degenerative illness which he must find a cure for. He is a neuroscientist, having dedicated his life to understanding the depths of the human mind. In his quest to find a cure for his illness, he manages to access an alternate reality in the hope that...
- 4/25/2024
- by Daniel Boyd
- FandomWire
An indie action game akin to Max Payne, El Paso, Elsewhere is to become a film, with Lakeith Stanfield in talks to star.
Developed by indie studio Strange Scaffold – headed up by designer Xalavier Nelson Jr – third-person action videogame El Paso, Elsewhere was released to glowing reviews in 2023. Less than a year later, the Max Payne-esque shooter is to be adapted into a movie, it’s been announced.
Producer Lorenzo Di Bonaventura has picked up the rights to the game though his company – the logically-named Di Bonaventura Pictures – meaning it’ll share a figurative stable with such properties as Transformers and GI Joe.
According to Variety, Lakeith Stanfield – whose latest film, the irreverent comedy The Book Of Clarence, is in UK cinemas now – is to star in the adaptation.
El Paso, Elsewhere is about a vampire hunter named James Savage, whose ex-girlfriend – named Draculae – is rather awkwardly a vampire herself.
Developed by indie studio Strange Scaffold – headed up by designer Xalavier Nelson Jr – third-person action videogame El Paso, Elsewhere was released to glowing reviews in 2023. Less than a year later, the Max Payne-esque shooter is to be adapted into a movie, it’s been announced.
Producer Lorenzo Di Bonaventura has picked up the rights to the game though his company – the logically-named Di Bonaventura Pictures – meaning it’ll share a figurative stable with such properties as Transformers and GI Joe.
According to Variety, Lakeith Stanfield – whose latest film, the irreverent comedy The Book Of Clarence, is in UK cinemas now – is to star in the adaptation.
El Paso, Elsewhere is about a vampire hunter named James Savage, whose ex-girlfriend – named Draculae – is rather awkwardly a vampire herself.
- 4/23/2024
- by Ryan Lambie
- Film Stories
Lakeith Stanfield, who most recently starred in The Book of Clarence for Sony, is teaming up with veteran producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura for El Paso, Elsewhere, an adaptation of the neo-noir vampire video game from publisher Strange Scaffold.
Stanfield is in talks to star in the feature and will also produce along with di Bonaventura, who is known for his action movies such as the Transformers franchise. Colin Stark will also produce
There is no writer or director, as the project is still being packaged in the hopes of finding a studio home. The package is seen as buzzy, as it is a video game adaptation, a bustling genre thanks to titles such as The Last of Us, the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, and the most recent hit, Fallout.
The game centers on a vampire hunter named James Savage who is on the hunt for his ex-girlfriend, named Janet (Aka...
Stanfield is in talks to star in the feature and will also produce along with di Bonaventura, who is known for his action movies such as the Transformers franchise. Colin Stark will also produce
There is no writer or director, as the project is still being packaged in the hopes of finding a studio home. The package is seen as buzzy, as it is a video game adaptation, a bustling genre thanks to titles such as The Last of Us, the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, and the most recent hit, Fallout.
The game centers on a vampire hunter named James Savage who is on the hunt for his ex-girlfriend, named Janet (Aka...
- 4/22/2024
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Academy Award nominee Lakeith Stanfield (The Book of Clarence) is in talks to star in and produce a feature adaptation of the hit neo-noir video game El Paso, Elsewhere, Deadline has learned.
Lorenzo di Bonaventura’s Di Bonaventura Pictures and Colin Stark will also produce.
The film will center on James Savage (Stanfield), who while recovering from a toxic relationship, confronts both his inner demons and enigmatic ex-girlfriend, Janet, before she executes a world-ending ritual. James navigates her reality-bending universe of ethereal monsters while facing the truth of his own addictions and skewed sense of self-worth, learning that the only route to love is through healing.
Released in September 2023, the game was developed by Strange Scaffold, the development label of BAFTA nominee Xalavier Nelson Jr.
Known for roles in films like Judas and the Black Messiah, The Book of Clarence, Knives Out and Selma, Stanfield has...
Lorenzo di Bonaventura’s Di Bonaventura Pictures and Colin Stark will also produce.
The film will center on James Savage (Stanfield), who while recovering from a toxic relationship, confronts both his inner demons and enigmatic ex-girlfriend, Janet, before she executes a world-ending ritual. James navigates her reality-bending universe of ethereal monsters while facing the truth of his own addictions and skewed sense of self-worth, learning that the only route to love is through healing.
Released in September 2023, the game was developed by Strange Scaffold, the development label of BAFTA nominee Xalavier Nelson Jr.
Known for roles in films like Judas and the Black Messiah, The Book of Clarence, Knives Out and Selma, Stanfield has...
- 4/22/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Developer Strange Scaffold has an impressive variety of games in their catalog. Last year, they published the excellent monster-hunting Max Payne-like El Paso, Elsewhere, which I consider to be one of my favorite games of 2023, but that doesn’t mean all their games are third person shooters.
They’ve got a sci-fi body horror economy game (Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator), a cutesy story-based poker game (Sunshine Shuffle), and even an adventure game where you talk to stock photos of dogs (An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs). Even knowing the variety of both theme and gameplay they’ve worked in, I don’t think I was prepared for them to announce Life Eater, which they describe as a “horror fantasy kidnapping simulator,” which simultaneously ended up being exactly what it says and nothing like I expected.
The story setup is pretty simple: you’re a modern-day druid who lives in the suburbs,...
They’ve got a sci-fi body horror economy game (Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator), a cutesy story-based poker game (Sunshine Shuffle), and even an adventure game where you talk to stock photos of dogs (An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs). Even knowing the variety of both theme and gameplay they’ve worked in, I don’t think I was prepared for them to announce Life Eater, which they describe as a “horror fantasy kidnapping simulator,” which simultaneously ended up being exactly what it says and nothing like I expected.
The story setup is pretty simple: you’re a modern-day druid who lives in the suburbs,...
- 4/16/2024
- by Aaron Boehm
- bloody-disgusting.com
El Paso, Elsewhere developer Strange Scaffold has hit it big, inking a five-game deal with indie publisher Frosty Pop. The deal comprises the funding and support of four new original titles from Strange Scaffold and a bespoke mobile version of El Paso, Elsewhere. Not only that, but Strange Scaffold has also announced a release date for its upcoming horror fantasy kidnapping simulator Life Eater, which will launch on PC via Steam on April 16.
Inspired by the Saw franchise and the apocalyptic paranoia of 10 Cloverfield Lane, Life Eater takes place in suburbia, and the player character is a modern-day druid holding down a dead-end job to pay for his true vocation: conducting the annual ritual that keeps the world from ending. To delay the apocalypse, he reluctantly kidnaps and sacrifices human beings every year. Obviously, acquiring these sacrifices and learning the intimate details of their lives forms an uncomfortable, compelling gameplay loop,...
Inspired by the Saw franchise and the apocalyptic paranoia of 10 Cloverfield Lane, Life Eater takes place in suburbia, and the player character is a modern-day druid holding down a dead-end job to pay for his true vocation: conducting the annual ritual that keeps the world from ending. To delay the apocalypse, he reluctantly kidnaps and sacrifices human beings every year. Obviously, acquiring these sacrifices and learning the intimate details of their lives forms an uncomfortable, compelling gameplay loop,...
- 3/6/2024
- by Mike Wilson
- bloody-disgusting.com
The debt that El Paso, Elsewhere owes to the original Max Payne is impossible to overstate. Your primary interaction with the world is to dive through it in slow motion, firing weapons that include dual-wielded pistols. Hard-boiled protagonist James Savage, whose head is made improbably square by the game’s lo-fi polygons, pops pills in order to restore health, and he makes a very specific sort of wheezing grunt when he jumps in the air. Even the levels, full of endless corridors, are heavily indebted to Max Payne’s dream sequences.
But where that game’s use of surreal imagery was mostly for effect, El Paso, Elsewhere’s oddities are quite literal: James Savage travels through a supernatural void that mashes together motels, graveyards, and more while populating these abstract spaces with mummies, werewolves, and biblically accurate angels. Traveling from one layout to the next via metaphysical elevator, James is...
But where that game’s use of surreal imagery was mostly for effect, El Paso, Elsewhere’s oddities are quite literal: James Savage travels through a supernatural void that mashes together motels, graveyards, and more while populating these abstract spaces with mummies, werewolves, and biblically accurate angels. Traveling from one layout to the next via metaphysical elevator, James is...
- 10/4/2023
- by Steven Scaife
- Slant Magazine
That September 26 release date for Strange Scaffold’s neo-noir horror shooter El Paso, Elsewhere will be here soon. And to get fans hyped even more (and to convince those fence-sitters), Strange Scaffold has released what’s touted as the final trailer for the game.
The trailer presents protagonist James Savage coming to a sudden and horrifying realization on his journey to stop his ex-girlfriend and the lord of the vampires, Draculae. Amongst the flood of violence, Savage isn’t just thriving—he feels good. Free to succumb to his addictions, and the pursuit of one final good act before the end of the world.
On this path towards oblivion, Savage hunts the monsters protecting Draculae, who seeks to perform a ritual that will end the world as we know it and place it under her reign. Armed with shotguns, pistols, uzis, stakes and more, the only choice players have is to keep moving forward,...
The trailer presents protagonist James Savage coming to a sudden and horrifying realization on his journey to stop his ex-girlfriend and the lord of the vampires, Draculae. Amongst the flood of violence, Savage isn’t just thriving—he feels good. Free to succumb to his addictions, and the pursuit of one final good act before the end of the world.
On this path towards oblivion, Savage hunts the monsters protecting Draculae, who seeks to perform a ritual that will end the world as we know it and place it under her reign. Armed with shotguns, pistols, uzis, stakes and more, the only choice players have is to keep moving forward,...
- 9/8/2023
- by Mike Wilson
- bloody-disgusting.com
Xalavier Nelson Jr. and Strange Scaffold know how to keep the neo-noir vibes coming with the latest trailer for their upcoming shooter El Paso, Elsewhere. Unlike last month’s stylish trailer, this one hits home that things aren’t so cut and dry with El Paso, Elsewhere protagonist James Savage, as he’s up against his ex known as “Draculae”.
Revisiting the dire situation that brought him back to his hometown and on a collision course with his former love, this trailer has Savage coming to terms with what’s ahead of him. This was always going to be a one-way trip, no matter the monsters slain or the pills taken.
El Paso, Elsewhere puts you in the twisting void beneath an unassuming motel, where James Savage must dive down a reality-bending path to stop Draculae. Armed with shotguns, pistols, uzis, stakes, and more, the only option players have is...
Revisiting the dire situation that brought him back to his hometown and on a collision course with his former love, this trailer has Savage coming to terms with what’s ahead of him. This was always going to be a one-way trip, no matter the monsters slain or the pills taken.
El Paso, Elsewhere puts you in the twisting void beneath an unassuming motel, where James Savage must dive down a reality-bending path to stop Draculae. Armed with shotguns, pistols, uzis, stakes, and more, the only option players have is...
- 8/21/2023
- by Mike Wilson
- bloody-disgusting.com
Developer Strange Scaffold has unleashed a blood-soaked, drug-fueled animated trailer announcing a September 26th release date for their Fps El Paso, Elsewhere. Featuring a sampling of the game’s soundtrack by Rj Lake with vocals by Xalavier Nelson Jr., the trailer showcases a stylish depiction of the story of El Paso, Elsewhere (unlike the gritty previous one) while dropping hints and glimpses at what’s to come.
El Paso, Elsewhere takes players on an unwanted, tumultuous trip down a dark rabbit hole. After learning that his ex-girlfriend, Draculae, lord of the vampires, is conducting a ritual that will doom the world as we know it, protagonist James Savage rushes back to his hometown of El Paso, Texas for a calamitous reunion.
Guarded by hordes of monsters, Draculae continues her foul work, leaving Savage’s journey as a desperate rush to prevent the end. Haunted by his memories with the undead queen,...
El Paso, Elsewhere takes players on an unwanted, tumultuous trip down a dark rabbit hole. After learning that his ex-girlfriend, Draculae, lord of the vampires, is conducting a ritual that will doom the world as we know it, protagonist James Savage rushes back to his hometown of El Paso, Texas for a calamitous reunion.
Guarded by hordes of monsters, Draculae continues her foul work, leaving Savage’s journey as a desperate rush to prevent the end. Haunted by his memories with the undead queen,...
- 7/20/2023
- by Mike Wilson
- bloody-disgusting.com
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