Every location contains its own theme (story), puzzles and characters that are integral in creating a cohesive world. Throughout the game you will open up new areas, acquire different skill sets, weapons, various items and try to comprehend the sights presented to you. Living Battery: Homunculi serve this to the humanoid's civilization. After their disappearance and, as the only sentient species left, the homunculi would then craft their own independent societies to survive and compete in this desolate world.

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Late to the Tragedy: When the player character wakes after the events of the prologue, they find themselves in a barren wasteland littered with the skeletal corpses of alien humanoids and slowly disintegrating structures. Humanoid Abomination: Every single humanoid creature is this, but special mention goes to post-transmutated Shells which turn regular Humanoids into purple-blue eldritch transentient beings according to the Artbook.Scorn is an atmospheric first-person horror adventure game set in a nightmarish universe of odd forms and somber tapestry. Scenery Porn: As some have put it, playing Scorn is like playing an interactive art piece crafted from the minds of both Beksinski and Giger. Eldritch Location: Most of the game takes place in a strange world where biology and technology blur together. Enfant Terrible: The Homunculi may look like weird-looking fetuses in a jar. But they are much smarter than they look and definitely do not like the thought of being put inside a baby shredder. Inspired bio-punk body-horror aesthetic revolves heavily around the melding of flesh and machinery inspired a la Zdzisław Beksiński and H.R. Geiger. It looks like a dark story of creation. Possibly the most viscerally unsettling games I've seen. It starts with the player character waking from unconsciousness and finding himself enveloped in strange tendrils and half-embedded on the floor, which he then breaks out of. The game's first section comprises of how the player got there.

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Bait-and-Switch: In the puzzle to get the Moldman out of its pod, you come across two chairs, which can either kill the creature or let it out. One chair is equipped with a scooper and one is equipped with a circular saw. Logically, you would assume that the scooper is what will get the creature out safely, while the circular saw would kill it. It's actually the inverse; the saw will destroy the pod and let the Moldman out, while using the scooper will kill the Moldman immediately. It is designed around the idea of "being thrown into the world". Isolated and lost inside this dream-like world, you will explore different interconnected regions in a non-linear fashion. The unsettling environment is a character itself.

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INVENTORY AND AMMO MANAGEMENT: Your loadout is defined and limited. This plays a big role in keeping the player in an even greater state of awareness throughout the whole game. Players will have to think about when to fight and when to take cover and how their actions affect the world around them. Different play styles will be needed to advance.

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Alien Landmass: An interesting example, as Scorn combines both influences from Beksinski and Giger. For the majority of the architecture and Humanoid design, it is blatantly Giger. But for the natural landscape itself as well as the Crater creatures, it is more in line with the desolated, decaying and barren nightmares of Beksinski.From Bad to Worse: The protagonist goes from wandering a wide, lifeless wasteland to a labyrinthine underground that is still very much alive in the worst possible ways. Every location contains its own theme (story), puzzles and characters that are integral in creating a cohesive world. Throughout the game you will open up new areas, acquire different skill sets, weapons, various items and try to comprehend the sights presented to you. GAMEPLAY FEATURES Barbie Doll Anatomy: Mostly played straight all throughout the game. Many of the male bodies scattered all over the place are shown to have nipples, but no genitals, although the female bodies are an exception. Both protagonists, despite being naked, don't have any obvious genitals when you look down at them. It's subverted at the end when Scorn Guy is undergoing surgery, as for a brief moment, his penis is actually seen in full view before a machine clamps around it, with the genitals seeming to have been retracted into his body prior to that point. Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: According to the Artbook, humanoids who fully transferred their consciousness into a Shell would start to transmutate within their armored power armor into something beyond sentience.