u/littleghost09

I love milsim games, and I like horror games. Just not jump scare supernatural games very much. I LOVE dread/psychological horror games though. My game takes inspiration from Fractured Mind, Cod 4, and SUPERHOT. I'd make the game have 2010-2011 style shooter graphics mostly on the greyscale with a few exceptions. This would help running in potato mode, easier development, and the horror atmosphere.

The whole point of the game is; not have beautiful graphics, but have very detailed and complex mechanics and enemies. Basically, to be a pain in the ass of the player to show the story.

My mechanics I've been playing with in UE4 are retina burning from bright lights, tinnitus, manual bullet by bullet loading of magazines, physicality meaning weapon sway, wacking, etc., tripping, weight based drowning, smoke inhalation, and a bunch more. The game probably won't feature any automatic weapons, max jump of about 1-2 feet. Can only climb on dry surfaces with grip etc.

All the mechanics are to give the player the feeling of war, where nothing is alright; or okay. Most milsim like games like SDIF/RoN or Arma kind of fail to portray this. They are still "games" and Kontur is supposed to make you realize the reality of nothing is ever alright youre always under lots of stress.

The game would be you playing as a German man in tactical gear who wakes up inside a house in Berlin. The game is zone/hub-based open world. The story goes between zones, to travel between zones the player uses the U-Bahn. Different zones can be different time zones including 1400s, 1800s, WW1, WW2, split cold war Germany, and modern day. Most things are liminal and empty and a distinct lack of life. Enemies in the game are either solid black or solid white featureless figures.

The other main part of the game is the AI enemies. (Not literal AI ofc). But their action trees. I would try to mimic reality with enemies as best as possible including that enemies can hide from you and stay hidden out of fear factor, hide and wait to attack you, coordinate, stack up, and attack, if you wait to long to do anything mid combat they can rush you, flank you, etc. Although featureless enemies, I'd make realistic violence in the game including dark/red artery based injuries, bullet holes, bleeding out, etc. depending on where and what was used. Enemies can get hurt or not and play dead waiting to attack you. Enemies can give up and just sit down. Enemies can "get rid of themselves" in certain situations. Enemies can scream, laugh, cry, beg for mercy, but all in a non understandable voice. They can pick up own body parts. I have some other themes I'd like to put in the game but don't want to say it here. The game does follow a story but never fully explains why/where/what you're doing there and never offers a real escape from the environment. This is because in real life, there is no escape from war. The whole main theme of the game is the horror of war but trying to be portrayed in the nastiest, most stressful, guilt tripping way.

You're character must sleep, and I am implementing a 1:10 chance that when you wake up, you have to wake up twice bc the first is a dream where weird things can happen (Can't spoil that here lol). Also enemies have a 1:15 chance in having parts of them flashing and glitching as real life detailed people.