This week s Premature Evaluation sees Fraser swap a regular Scottish winter for an eternal, supernatural winter that has destroyed humanity in survival sandbox Fade to Silence. Festive!
I really should be playing games about sunshine and whimsy with warm colour palettes and chipper NPCs — here, in the depths of winter, it s gloomy enough as it is. Fade to Silence has huskies though! Well, they re wolves, but they do pull sleds. Isn t that lovely? Winter s not all bad. Yes, Fade to Silence is a relentlessly miserable survival game set in a post-apocalyptic frozen hellscape, but I ve always wanted to ride a sled, and I like to think that I m not the sort of person who would let the end of the world stand in the way of his dreams.