Two years after being faraway from Steam, 2014’s strangest horror shooter is again on GOG, and it is free
On: July 11, 2023
Two years after it was unceremoniously faraway from Steam, the mostly-monochromatic first-person stealth-action game Betrayer has returned to life on GOG—and it is free, too.
Set within the early days of colonial America, Betrayer begins with gamers washed up on the shores of what’s now Virginia, alone and unprovisioned. A brief path results in a close-by fort, which is oddly deserted apart from the presence of unusual, barely disturbing figures of ashes. The encompassing panorama is full of Native American warriors and Spanish conquistadors, all of them hostile; the one non-enemy within the game, the Maiden in Pink, is clearly working by some problems with her personal.
The default monochrome-and-blood-red coloration palette was putting, however sadly Betrayer labored higher as an idea than an precise game, and was form of uneven and tedious total. It wasn’t unhealthy, it simply fell wanting its ambitions: “I wish to have fun its creativity and commend the dedication to a novel imaginative and prescient, however the high quality of Betrayer’s concepts solely makes their execution extra disappointing,” government editor Tyler Wilde wrote in his 62% overview.
For causes unknown, Betrayer was yoinked from Steam in 2021, an unlucky however not unusual destiny. However now, with out warning (or any form of context in any respect) it has been resurrected on GOG, and it’s very free. And it does not look like a time-limited giveaway: It is simply straight-up free, take it and go, have a pleasant day. For the file, it is nonetheless not again on Steam—it’s, for now a minimum of, a GOG unique. Growth studio Blackpowder Video games, fashioned by ex-Mololith Productions staffers, hasn’t launched one other game since and seemingly shut down someday after Betrayer’s launch.
I am not likely positive what to make of this sudden, sudden return from digital purgatory, however I’m fairly sure that for the low low value of completely nothing, Betrayer is value a minimum of a couple of minutes of your time: It’d flip into one thing of a grind halfway by however it actually nails the spooky, haunted atmosphere of a rugged, lonely land gripped by one thing… evil.
The GOG boards for Betrayer are at the moment all however empty—fortuitously for something with points or questions, there’s loads of assist to dig into on Steam.
