Sadness is an upcoming game by Polish video game developer Nibris. It will be a survival horror. It will only be launched for Nintendo Wii. According to the director of Nibris Piotr Orlowski, “The scenario will have associations with paranoid schizophrenia, nyctophobia, and narcolepsy. According to the Nibris website “the scenario will surprise you. Sadness takes place on the verge of 20^th century, in Russia. Nibris confirmed that the game is under their development in early July 2008. Probable release date for Sadness is in the Autumn of 2009.

Sadness will scare you by atmosphere not by violence. There are various actions in the game that will give you such horrible feeling. Few such actions are throwing rope over wall or slitting throat of enemies using glass. Save options is new and different from other games as it will not be according to you, it will happen automatically and there are no checkpoints. According to game designer Piotr Bielatowicz there aim is to give players real effect of traumatic events. They aim for a completely intuitive and real behaviour- just like real life. Every choice player makes is essential if you experience in your life, they are with you all the time. It should feel like player is taking part in the events, not just playing a game. It will not be a third person shooter rather it will make use of a heads up display to allow greater immersion.

Sadness will play out completely in stylized gothic horror setting. It is completely black and white. A video trailer based on the game settings was released by Nibris on April 10, 2006. Announcement of another trailer was made by Nibris, but didn’t release it later. However, recently three in game screenshots are released on Nibris’ official sadness page. Sadness will use Gamebryo middleware for Wii.

Sadness is set in pre-WWI Eastern Europe. It follows story of Maria, she is a Victorian era aristocrat who has to protect her blind son Alexander. Their train derails in the countryside. It is stated that it is based on Slavic legends. Many kind of creatures appears in the game. Werewolves also appear in the game. But this time they are slightly altered from the common werewolves. First change about the werewolves is that they are born humans and when they grow adult will change on full moon. Second change is that they can’t regenerate after death. One more noticeable character is Likho. Embodiment of evil and misfortune he has one eye, and usually

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