Demo offers early taste of Mouthwashing ahead of next month's release

• Announcements by Jack Allin
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Full version of PSX-styled psychological sci-fi horror game coming September 26th for Windows PC on Steam

Lots of sci-fi horror games focus on alien nasties hell-bent on eating you for lunch or gestating their spawn inside you, but there are many quieter terrors in the blackness of space, like the ones explored in Wrong Organ's upcoming thriller Mouthwashing.

Players assume the role of Jimmy, part of the five-person crew of the Tulpar, a long-haul space freighter for the interplanetary Pony Express. Partway through your planned year-long delivery mission, the ship unexpected goes off course, resulting in a crash that seals off large portions of the ship and leaves the captain seriously injured. What's worse is that the vessel will run out of power in six months, and your rations will last far less time than that. As the crisis deepens, the entire crew will "face the threat of starvation and endure crippling isolation." Paranoia and hallucinations begin as you struggle to maintain your sanity. With "zero chance of rescue," the question isn't if you'll all die but when, how, and perhaps "who will be responsible." 

Mouthwashing is one of a growing number of new games to feature a low-poly, early PSX-style aesthetic. Much of the Tulpar is bathed in red lighting that leaves it feeling "shrouded in perpetual sunset," which seems appropriate for the fading moments of a doomed ship in fatal distress. Described as a "story-driven psychological horror game," it plays out in first-person 3D perspective, allowing you to freely roam the "claustrophobic corridors" of the ship – at least, the sections that weren't sealed off with protective foam when it crashed and left you stranded. As "time closes in on you," you must overcome obstacles, make choices, and uncover the secrets about your cargo and fellow crewmates, including Swansea, Daisuke, Nurse Anya and the heavily bandaged captain, Curly. But with dwindling resources, are they still your friends and colleagues or rather competition? No longer able to rely on anyone, you must now "question everything, trust nothing. Not even your own mind."

If you can't wait until its September 26th launch date to get your hands on Mouthwashing, you can leap right into the chaos through the playable demo available now on Steam for Windows PC.