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As a PlayStation 5 exclusive, you'd be forgiven for thinking Twin Swans' first game, Hunter's Moon, might relate to Bloodborne, but with a folk-horror twist and a neat release date of 26 October, timed for the titular hunter's moon. Yet while it's a narrative indie game set in a 17th-century Yorkshire village, I was surprised to learn that FromSoftware's gothic , Lovecraftian , masterpiece-inspired indie studio Twin Swans made its debut game in Unity .

"There's this mechanic in Bloodborne where you can knock on a door and an NPC will tell you some lore, or you can listen at a window and get a bit more of the backstory that way," writer-director Alicia Contestabile tells me. "That sparked this idea for a game that would be about eavesdropping, knocking on doors, and talking to people in this mysterious village. And I thought, why wouldn't they come outside to talk to you?…