DreadXP’s Survival Horror Puppet Shooter ‘My Friendly Neighborhood’ Available Now on Steam [Trailer]
Just in case you missed it from our review yesterday, DreadXP’s My Friendly Neighborhood is out now on Steam, with a limited-time 10% discount to boot. The launch of the survival-puzzler title with a mascot horror twist also has an accompanying trailer for those who love their launch trailers.
“This project is not a testament to my own work, but instead the help of my publisher (DreadXP), my team, and now, even you,” says John Szymanski, who with his brother Evan Szymanski, developed My Friendly Nieghborhood. “I truly hope My Friendly Nieghborhood engages, entertains, and brings you joy.”
A cheeky nod to the mascot horror trend, in My Friendly Neighborhood, players strap on the old toolbelt and step into the work boots of Gordon, a repairman who takes on a job well above his pay grade. Initially tasked with shutting down the sudden broadcast of a beloved canceled children’s...
“This project is not a testament to my own work, but instead the help of my publisher (DreadXP), my team, and now, even you,” says John Szymanski, who with his brother Evan Szymanski, developed My Friendly Nieghborhood. “I truly hope My Friendly Nieghborhood engages, entertains, and brings you joy.”
A cheeky nod to the mascot horror trend, in My Friendly Neighborhood, players strap on the old toolbelt and step into the work boots of Gordon, a repairman who takes on a job well above his pay grade. Initially tasked with shutting down the sudden broadcast of a beloved canceled children’s...
- 7/18/2023
- by Mike Wilson
- bloody-disgusting.com
Given enough time, the horror genre subsumes all the trappings of childhood. It has long since claimed dolls, clowns, and Chuck E. Cheese animatronics as its own. Now, in brother developers John and Evan Szymanski’s first-person survival horror game My Friendly Neighborhood, the genre comes for Muppets in tongue-in-cheek fashion.
As a repairman named, natch, Gordon, you arrive at a TV studio that was once the headquarters of the titular Saturday-morning puppet show. The antenna on top of the abandoned studio has mysteriously begun to broadcast reruns, and it’s up to Gordon to disable the device. What he finds, though, is a place that’s far from empty. At the front desk, a sock puppet moves and speaks to him of its own accord, and in the rest of the studio, he encounters the canceled TV program’s colorful cast of much larger puppets who all chase him down on sight.
As a repairman named, natch, Gordon, you arrive at a TV studio that was once the headquarters of the titular Saturday-morning puppet show. The antenna on top of the abandoned studio has mysteriously begun to broadcast reruns, and it’s up to Gordon to disable the device. What he finds, though, is a place that’s far from empty. At the front desk, a sock puppet moves and speaks to him of its own accord, and in the rest of the studio, he encounters the canceled TV program’s colorful cast of much larger puppets who all chase him down on sight.
- 7/17/2023
- by Steven Scaife
- Slant Magazine
It’s difficult to recommend or describe My Friendly Neighborhood without using the phrase “and I’m not kidding.”
Mfn is a short, speedrunner-friendly first-person survival horror game. Right from the start, it’s got a solid atmosphere of dread that’s carried by its audio design, with a setting that effectively mixes the mundane and the bizarre.
It’s also a game about fighting homicidal children’s show mascots. Where another game might have zombies or ghosts, Mfn’s corridors are infested with knockoff Muppets.
It’s the Jim Henson version of George Romero’s The Crazies, and it works a lot better than it has any right to. I’ve been trying to figure out why, and I think it’s because its developers, John & Evan Szymanski and their team, chose to play the concept absolutely straight.
Mfn absolutely commits to its premise, right from the start. If...
Mfn is a short, speedrunner-friendly first-person survival horror game. Right from the start, it’s got a solid atmosphere of dread that’s carried by its audio design, with a setting that effectively mixes the mundane and the bizarre.
It’s also a game about fighting homicidal children’s show mascots. Where another game might have zombies or ghosts, Mfn’s corridors are infested with knockoff Muppets.
It’s the Jim Henson version of George Romero’s The Crazies, and it works a lot better than it has any right to. I’ve been trying to figure out why, and I think it’s because its developers, John & Evan Szymanski and their team, chose to play the concept absolutely straight.
Mfn absolutely commits to its premise, right from the start. If...
- 7/17/2023
- by Thomas Wilde
- bloody-disgusting.com
After its appearance at Pax East back in March, you knew that the release of DreadXP and brother developers brothers John and Evan Szymanski’s My Friendly Neighborhood would be around the corner. And during the PC Games Show today, that corner turns out to be a July 18th release date for PC via Steam, with the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series versions coming at a later date.
And in case you missed the demo from Pax East (or the time-limited demo from last year), you can try out the Steam version of the game right now.
My Friendly Neighborhood puts you into the work boots of Gordon, a repairman tasked with shutting down the sudden broadcast of a canceled children’s TV show titled The Friendly Neighborhood. Back in the day, the loveable show lit up TV screens and the smiling faces of children all across the world.
And in case you missed the demo from Pax East (or the time-limited demo from last year), you can try out the Steam version of the game right now.
My Friendly Neighborhood puts you into the work boots of Gordon, a repairman tasked with shutting down the sudden broadcast of a canceled children’s TV show titled The Friendly Neighborhood. Back in the day, the loveable show lit up TV screens and the smiling faces of children all across the world.
- 6/11/2023
- by Mike Wilson
- bloody-disgusting.com
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