It’s shark season, and no person is aware of that higher than Alice Video games, the developer behind the upcoming marine dentistry simulator, Shark Dentist: an aptly named horror roguelike through which you play — you guessed it — a shark dentist.
Regardless of its quite amusing title (“Shark Dentist” completely sounds just like the sort of present you’d discover airing on Discovery Channel in the midst of July), the sport’s trailer reveals off some fairly severe scares. Shark Dentist places gamers into the scrubs of the world’s unluckiest (or bravest) veterinary dentist, who apparently solely works on lethal marine animals with sharp tooth. Gamers should gently establish the supply of a barely sedated shark’s dental woes and punctiliously discover a strategy to remedy them. Failure means dying.
“Impressed by viral sensations like Buckshot Roulette, Shark Dentist blends darkish humor, roguelike mechanics, and a deeply creepy aesthetic to ship a horror expertise like no different,” Alice Video games stated in a press launch shared alongside the gory trailer.
There are fairly a couple of variables gamers might want to hold observe of to remain alive, from the shark’s coronary heart price and ache ranges to its dose of anesthesia. A single slip-up will lead to a swift and bloody dying. There are a number of instruments on the participant’s disposal, together with a round noticed, which actually looks as if a recipe for immediate dying, however presumably has some type of legitimate use. Using the proper instruments and the proper timing can imply the distinction between a gross-but-successful tooth extraction and an unscheduled beheading, because the shark will instantly shake off the anesthesia and assault gamers the second they make a mistake.
Oddly, the terrifying aquatic affected person is hanging from the ceiling of a dingy basement. Why is the shark in a basement? Why is it hanging from the ceiling? Is the sport’s protagonist practising unlawful shark dentistry? The trailer doesn’t give any away any solutions, however gamers will presumably be capable of uncover the reality when Shark Dentist launches for Home windows PC. It’s presently accessible to wishlist on Steam, the place its launch date is listed as “coming quickly.”