Bodycams and body horror infect the upcoming Zoochosis, a zookeeping sim about horribly mutated animal monsters
Mar. 21, 2024Zoochosis debuts a frightening new look at the Future Games Show
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Zoochosis made a major splash when it was first announced thanks to an irresistibly spooky setup: you play as a zookeeper when the normally cute animal inhabitants become infected and violently try to take over the entire facility. Now, another peek at the poor mutated animals and shadowy zoo has debuted at theFuture Games ShowSpring Showcase.
Zoochosis might look like your typical first-person horror game at first glance as our zookeeper tiptoes across dark corners and navigates the zoo using now-ancient tools. That is until you catch your first glimpse of an eight-legged giraffe and wonder how you’ll ever fall asleep again.
The game seems to feature gruesome body horror throughout, contorting all too familiar animals until they more closely resemble an alien mutant rather than an earthly creature. But unlike other horror games, our goal here isn’t to squash or kill the infected animals - our goal is to engineer a vaccine to cure them all.
Zoochosis also channels some other horror heavyweights, borrowing from Outlast’s tight bodycam perspective and Fight Nights At Freddy’s security camera jumpscares as you peek into certain animal enclosures.
Zoochosis brings cute zoo animals and frightful scares to PC viaSteamlater this year.
If you’re looking for more excellent games from today’s Future Games Show, have a look atour official Steam page.
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Kaan freelances for various websites including Rock Paper Shotgun, Eurogamer, and this one, Gamesradar. He particularly enjoys writing about spooky indies, throwback RPGs, and anything that’s vaguely silly. Also has an English Literature and Film Studies degree that he’ll soon forget.
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