CONSCRIPT charts a new course for survival horror – and war games

REPUB: The award-winning Australian game pushes two rusted-on genres forward.

Charging into No-Mans Land. Source: Steam.

This is a republished version of an earlier article with some new context. I’m returning from my break later this week.

A month after I covered CONSCRIPT, the game went on to win game of the year at the Australian Game Developer Awards. It also won the prize for Excellence in Art and Excellence in Emerging Games.

Pretty remarkable, given its maker, Jordan Mochi solo designed and developed the title. It was also his first game out of studying a history degree too. Yet when I spoke to Jordan earlier he expressed concern about translating a wishlist of over 165,000 Steam users into sales. He was soon to meet with Team 17, his publisher, about what could be done. Tellingly, the game went on sale right as I was talking to Mochi. It’s now hovering around the $30 AUD mark on Steam.

Despite the award win, the story here largely hasn’t changed.

Mochi this week c…