Publisher Nightdive Studios and developer The Dreamers Guild will release the horror point-and-click adventure game I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Switch on March 27th.
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream originally launched for MS-DOS and MacOS in November 1995, followed by Windows on September 5, 2013, OSX and Linux on October 17, 2013, and iOS and Android on January 14, 2016.
The game is an adaptation of the post-apocalyptic short story of the same name by Harlan Ellison. It was first published in the March 1967 issue of IF: Worlds of Science Fiction. The story is set against the backdrop of World War III, where a sentient supercomputer named AM, born from the merging of the world’s major defense computers, eradicates humanity except for five individuals. These survivors—Benny, Gorrister, Nimdok, Ted, and Ellen—are kept alive by AM to endure endless torture as a form of revenge against its creators.
The game plunges you into the tortured and hidden past of the five survivors, as you delve into their darkest fears, and attempt to outwit AM in a game of psychological warfare.
Here is an overview of the game, via its Steam page:
- Five Damned Souls – Buried deep within the center of the earth, trapped in the bowels of an insane computer for the past hundred and nine years. Gorrister the suicidal loner, Benny the mutilated brute, Ellen the hysterical phobic, Nimdok the secretive sadist, Ted the cynical paranoid.
- One Challenge – The adventure plunges you into the tortured and hidden past of the five humans. Delve into their darkest fears. Outwit the Master Computer AM in a game of psychological warfare. Disturbing, compelling. An adventure you won’t easily forget!
Key Features:
- Assume the roles of five different characters, each in a unique environment.
- Challenging dilemmas dealing with powerfully charged emotional issues.
- Provocative psychological and adult-oriented themes
- Based on Harlan Ellison’s short story “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream”, one of the ten most reprinted stories in the English language.
- Full digitized speech with over 40 different characters and state-of-the-art animation.
- Harlan Ellison as the voice of the insane master computer, AM.
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream is currently available on PC via GOG and Steam.
You can watch the new console announcement trailer for the game below.
