{"id":81023,"date":"2025-01-28T22:43:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T22:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/game-grumps-rogue-games-set-to-release-80s-slasher-horror-game-homebody-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T22:43:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T22:43:36","slug":"game-grumps-rogue-games-set-to-release-80s-slasher-horror-game-homebody-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/game-grumps-rogue-games-set-to-release-80s-slasher-horror-game-homebody-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Grumps &#038; Rogue Games set to release 80\u2019s slasher horror game \u2018Homebody\u2019 &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Game Grumps &#038; Rogue Games set to release 80\u2019s slasher horror game \u2018Homebody\u2019 John Green \/ Game Grumps \/ Rogue GamesThe Game Grumps, the team behind dating simulator \u2018Dream Daddy,\u2019 are partnering up with Rogue Games to unleash a brand-new horror adventure: Homebody. YouTube duo the \u2018Game Grumps\u2019 are set to unleash a new game in their ever-growing arsenal of titles \u2014 this one a completely different experience to their well-loved dating sim \u2018Dream Daddy.\u2019 The Game Grumps have partnered with games publisher Rogue Games (which boasts former Nintendo of America prez. Reggie Fils-Aime as a board advisor) to create their upcoming title \u2018Homebody.\u2019 \u2018Homebody\u2019 is a psychological thriller and narrative-driven horror game based on slasher flicks from the 1980\u2019s. Game Grumps to release new \u2018Homebody\u2019 horror game The title promises a \u201csurprising and responsive enemy AI system that ensures no two encounters are the same\u201d \u2014 ensuring that players will definitely be getting chased by a crazed, masked killer, as shown in the game\u2019s chilling trailer. The game follows the main character, Emily and her friends, who are \u201chaunted by memories of the past in the form of a relentless killer.\u201d Players are tasked with making their way out of a house and avoiding this killer by uncovering clues, solving puzzles, and making dialogue decisions. The game also boasts some rogue-lite elements: The official press release states that the adventure might be \u201cimpossible at first, but with each attempt to put the pieces together, the blood splattered picture becomes more and more clear.\u201d \u201cWe\u2019re obsessed with horror games, so when coming off of Dream Daddy, it was a natural shift to explore the horror genre,\u201d Jory Griffis, Homebody\u2019s game director at Game Grumps, said of the upcoming title. \u201cWe were excited to retain the narrative and storytelling values we learned making Dream Daddy and put them to use in a game with a totally different tone and ambitious new mechanics.\u201d Homebody is set to release on Steam, the Epic Game Store, and consoles later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game Grumps &#038; Rogue Games set to release 80\u2019s slasher horror game \u2018Homebody\u2019 John Green \/ Game Grumps \/ Rogue GamesThe Game Grumps, the team behind dating simulator \u2018Dream Daddy,\u2019 are partnering up with Rogue Games to unleash a brand-new horror adventure: Homebody. YouTube duo the \u2018Game Grumps\u2019 are set to unleash a new game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}