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[Cthulhu]

I can't believe this game hasn't gotten any attention from Bay12, it's right up our alley.

Sir, You Are Being Hunted is an open-world sandbox survival game that sees you stranded in Bizarro Great Britain, a cluster of five islands (currently just rural, fens, and mountains, but an industrial district and a giant castle are in the works), all procedurally generated, and procedurally generated very well.  Between the dismal landscape, constant rain, and random arrangement of roads and villages with no coherent planning, you'll feel like you're really in rural England!

If you hope to get back to your dimension in time for tea, you'll have to collect all the pieces of the malfunctioning device that sent you here and bring them to a circle of standing stones.  They're scattered across all five islands.  Worse, with Bizarro Britain comes Bizarro Britons.  The islands are inhabited by a landed gentry of sharply dressed robots who have decided to make a sport of hunting you down and murdering you.

That's the gist of the game.  You have somewhere in the neighborhood of 25-30 macguffins to find and, being an open world sandbox, you can go about finding them in any way you see fit.  There's a simple food mechanic that forces you to keep moving, and the robot inhabitants are conducting an increasingly sophisticated manhunt to find you.  Chilling out and sipping tea while they look out for you at first, eventually they bring out searchlight balloons, robot bloodhounds, giant systematic sweeps of the farmlands, it gets pretty intense.  Oh, and if they find the Macguffins before you do they'll set up perimeter defenses, knowing you'll eventually come to them.

It's pretty challenging, a lot of fun, and despite the silliness of fancy robots hunting you, it can get pretty scary at points.  Minus the tweed, the idea of being hunted down for no reason by an alien intelligence pushes some deeply-seated buttons, and when you add in the bleakness of the environment and the complete lack of safe havens, you've got a recipe for some good horror.

The game's out on Steam early access for 20 bucks.  Does anybody have it yet?  Any interesting stories to share?  I don't have much yet, but I'm on the lookout for exciting stuff.

[Xotes]

Pair of bots lurking near a macguffin bit. I got a pistol with twelve bullets and an axe. Drop one with pistol fire, wound the other enough to make him run away.  Instead of going after the Macguffin, I give chase with my axe, catching up with the slippery git fairly quickly. He keeps backpeddling away as I rush closer and closer, bloody vengeance on my *BLAM*

Turns out they can run and shoot! Ow!

[Chattox]

I pre-ordered a while ago but haven't played yet because of the derp with Humble and Steam keys. Looks really good though! I too was shocked at the lack of thread; I'd make my own but I suck at making good first posts.

[Facekillz058]

This game looks awesome, I wish I could afford it right now.
It almost looks like DayZ mixed with Mann v. Machine from TF2.

[olemars]

I've had my KS alpha access for a while, and it's turning into a good piece of high entertainment value. It's got the paranoia and atmosphere of DayZ, just without annoying humans and with british humor. Douglas Adams would have loved this game. Still got rough edges though, and the macguffin-fetching is tedious.

[Anvilfolk]

Yeah, I watched a couple of LPs after hearing that it was out on Early Access and you can tell there are really tense moments, but mostly it's... walking.

[Karlito]

I've been playing this, quite entertaining, though my FPS skills are pretty abysmal.

[CognitiveDissonance]

PTW, because this game interests me greatly. Thinking of buying it.

[Xotes]

I'd certainly recommend giving it a spin. The feeling the first time you get one-up and thwack a robotic pursuer with your axe is something truly dramatic, moreso when you then lose the advantage and run for your life as his buddies give chase, their hounds barking and their shotgun fire peppering the ground around you as you vault fences and hedgerows.

[Flying Dice]

Oh, this looks good. I believe I'll have to buy it.

[Cthulhu]

I've almost completed the first island.  I've got one more macguffin to find.

Here's a tip, guys!  Draw a map.  I'm serious.  Get some paper, send your mind back to the days of Dungeon Master, and draw a map.  It doesn't have to be good, but having some kind of idea of the lay of the land will be a huge asset when you're down to one or two macguffins.  The uniform terrain and lack of a pattern to development makes the islands very disorienting, towns and fields blend together and it's easy to find yourself going in circles.

Mysteries!

Spoiler: The letters (click to show/hide)

There are numbered letters scattered across the islands.  Despite the numbering, they're all the same thing, a cryptic poem about something sinister.  The only thing I can guess is they might be referencing one of the unfinished enemies, possibly the landowner (a giant and "terrifyingly alien" robot) or the scarecrow (alluded to in an RPS article as the scariest enemy in the game.)  I don't know why they're numbered.  There may be subtle differences in the letters, I haven't examined them carefully.

Spoiler: The wisps (click to show/hide)

This one's pretty apparent right from the beginning of the game.  Blue sprites drift around the islands, illuminating the area at night and making a weird noise.  As far as I know you can't interact with them, they don't do anything tangible, and the robots ignore them.  They may be part of something unfinished, just scenery, or something I haven't figured out yet.

Spoiler: The thrum (click to show/hide)

I might be stretching for a mystery here.  Sometimes you can hear a deep mechanical thrum with no obvious source.  The way it rises and falls almost feels like it's something moving around.  It might just be an ambient noise, like I said, I could be making robot mountains out of robot molehills here.

[Xotes]

About the letters, I

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 think they just haven't written them all out yet, hence their being all identical. Still an alpha, after all!

[Chattox]

I'm relatively sure the "thrum" you described is from the balloon. I've literally only ever heard it when that bastard was hovering nearby.

[NRDL]

PTW, this looks really cool. 

[Jackrabbit]

If I wasn't living hand to mouth, I'd be all over this like you wouldn't believe. I've been following the development on and off and man

-Procedural generation game
-Procedural generation STEALTH game
-BRITISH procedural generation stealth game
-British procedural generation stealth game with ROBOTS IN TWEED

This game hit buttons I didn't know I had.