New horror game is basically The Terror with adorable penguins

Don't worry about all the supernatural scares afoot, you're a flightless bird It's one thing to face down supernatural creatures when you're a rough-and-tumble badass like Resident Evil Requiem's Leon Kennedy. It's another thing entirely to encounter eldritch horrors when you're just a dumpy little flightless bird whose every step is an unsteady wobble. That's the premise of Penguin Colony, a new Lovecraftian narrative game where you explore the secrets beneath the Antarctic ice as various members of a colony of penguins. Penguin Colony is being developed by Origame Digital, the creators of Umurangi Generation, one of Polygon's favorite games of 2020. It's being published by Fellow Traveller Games, the Australian company behind acclaimed recent indies like Citizen Sleeper and 1000x Resist. Each bird in Penguin Colony has its own unique abilities and limitations, which will shape how you explore the game's open-ended environments. Smaller fowl can squeeze into tight spaces, while others are better suited to swimming through icy waters. You'll uncover the fate of two factions who have come to the South Pole: one wants to subdue the power of an ancient being who dwells there, while th

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