In I Can’t Escape: Darkness from indie developer Fancy Fish Games, the mood of suspense and desperation has been heightened to a terrifying degree. You’ll find yourself in a musty, dimly-lit dungeon complete with disturbing visuals and a soundscape that offers no comfort. If that’s not bad enough, the more you try to escape the deeper you’ll fall into despair.  

I Can’t Escape: Darkness is the spiritual successor to the popular 2013 one-month experiment I Can’t Escape, which has spooked and thrilled over 250,000 players. Fancy Fish Games Founder David Maletz: “There were some great features left on the cutting room floor when we made I Can’t Escape and some amazing post-release feedback that we’ve gone back and woven into the fabric of I Can’t Escape: Darkness.”

Maletz adds, “The goal of  I Can’t Escape: Darkness is to create a stronger atmosphere and experiment with a new mechanic that will once again tantalize the player with the possibility of escape and control, but then push them farther from their goals almost against their will. With everything conspiring against you, escape is made even more difficult by the fact that  I Can’t Escape: Darkness is procedurally generated each time you play. Nobody can tell you how to get out. You still won’t escape.”

Maletz adds, “The goal of  I Can’t Escape: Darkness is to create a stronger atmosphere and experiment with a new mechanic that will once again tantalize the player with the possibility of escape and control, but then push them farther from their goals almost against their will. With everything conspiring against you, escape is made even more difficult by the fact that I Can’t Escape: Darkness is procedurally generated each time you play. Nobody can tell you how to get out. You still won’t escape.”

More info about the game will be disclosed in the coming weeks.  I Can’t Escape: Darkness will be released early in 2015.