{"id":25362,"date":"2026-10-09T09:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T07:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/09\/end-of-abyss-review-a-creepy-dollhouse-take-on-resident-evil-and-the-thing\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T09:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T07:37:17","slug":"end-of-abyss-review-a-creepy-dollhouse-take-on-resident-evil-and-the-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/09\/end-of-abyss-review-a-creepy-dollhouse-take-on-resident-evil-and-the-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"End Of Abyss review \u2013 a creepy dollhouse take on Resident Evil and The Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PlayStation 5 (version played), Xbox, PC; Epic Games Publishing<br \/><\/strong>This fetchingly presented horror game brings style and scares, but overextends itself with repetition<\/p>\n<p>A small band of soldiers enters an abandoned facility, where puckered flesh sprouts from cold steel. It\u2019s a promising but familiar start to a sci-fi horror story, with heavy overtones of Alien and The Thing. Neither of those, though, were so \u2026 dinky.<\/p>\n<p>End of Abyss\u2019s facility is presented as a kind of a model-village recreation of The Thing\u2019s Outpost 31 that you peer into from above. Your little bobble-headed hero takes up a tiny fraction of the screen, with most of the remainder drenched in foggy darkness, or even blanked out entirely. This is a world of Usborne-style cutaways, where anything outside the walls is total blackness.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2026\/oct\/09\/end-of-abyss-review-playstation-5-xbox-pc\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b164ea67fd49eb3521fbf50a01767731a4bf4b43\/955_511_1923_1540\/master\/1923.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=54c20c79f50ec4130049ea7526da2e46\" title=\"End Of Abyss review \u2013 a creepy dollhouse take on Resident Evil and The Thing\" \/>PlayStation 5 (version played), Xbox, PC; Epic Games PublishingThis fetchingly presented horror game brings style and scares, but overextends itself with repetition<br \/>\nA small band of soldiers enters an abandoned facility, where puckered flesh sprouts from cold steel. It\u2019s a promising but familiar start to a sci-fi horror story, with heavy overtones of Alien and The Thing. Neither of those, though, were so \u2026 dinky.<br \/>\nEnd of Abyss\u2019s facility is presented as a kind of a model-village recreation of The Thing\u2019s Outpost 31 that you peer into from above. Your little bobble-headed hero takes up a tiny fraction of the screen, with most of the remainder drenched in foggy darkness, or even blanked out entirely. This is a world of Usborne-style cutaways, where anything outside the walls is total blackness. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PlayStation 5 (version played), Xbox, PC; Epic Games PublishingThis fetchingly presented horror game brings style and scares, but overextends itself with repetition A small band of soldiers enters an abandoned facility, where puckered flesh sprouts from cold steel. It\u2019s a promising but familiar start to a sci-fi horror story, with heavy overtones of Alien and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/09\/end-of-abyss-review-a-creepy-dollhouse-take-on-resident-evil-and-the-thing\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">End Of Abyss review \u2013 a creepy dollhouse take on Resident Evil and The Thing<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25362"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}