Machinarium creators Amanita Design are making a horror game

“It’s going to be very interesting to see what people think about it,” Amanita Design’s Lukas Kunce tells in a statement. “It’s going to be a bit disgusting at times, and very disturbing.”

The game is being headed up by Chuchel’s designer and is already almost finished. Kunce describes the visual style as something akin to Botanicula and Chuchel, but darker.

Amanita are still deciding which game to release next, but they plan to release one of the four games next year, with a formal announcement potentially coming later this year.

Two of the other ongoing projects are point-and-click efforts along the lines of Machinarium and Samorost, but with their own unique twists. The fourth is neither a horror nor adventure game, but something “completely different, and something new for us”, according to Kunce.

You can find this eerie face on Jaromír Plachý's website, the only game project without a name or description. 

While chatting about the musicians behind Amanita's games, Kunce gave a few hints about what to expect.

"Right now, Floex is not working on anything, but he's probably going to start working pretty soon on one of the four secret projects, and DVA are working on another from Jaromír Plachý, who just finished Chuchel, and he's already almost finished another game."

Jaromír Plachý is better known putting his creative energy into some of Amanita's more buoyant, pleasant games, but if he can do scary as well as he does cute, then we're in for some prime spooks.