Maple County 1.0

Low budget indie games tend to be some of the most creative around, assuming they aren't just flipping assets poorly in Unity. Without the budget to create an epic, the creators instead need to focus on one unique feature to make their games stick out. From these restrictions come some truly inventive concepts. One of them is Maple County, which is a short experimental game about a police tape training officers on a series of uncanny creatures that resemble human.

To play Maple County, simply run the executable after unzipping it to a folder.

This is a short game but incredibly scary. Much like its inspiration, there is an uncomfortable amount of realism in how it's presented. It is a police education video about some supernatural entities that resemble humans on the surface. However, as the tape goes on, you'll notice that these creatures are incredibly uncanny, looking like humans only on the surface and their attempts to emulate humans only make them more terrifying.

This isn't just a slideshow, however, There is a gameplay segment where you play as a victim of an attack from one of these creatures. Again, just like its inspiration, the police cannot or will not help with these creatures. So you have to play dead, stay silent, and generally avoid the creature. It's an incredibly tense and frankly terrifying sequence as you try to understand the behaviors of the creature that's stalking you.

All in all, if you want to play a game with an incredibly unique premise, then you should give Maple County a download.