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Premature Evaluation: Mist Survival

Premature Evaluation is the weekly column in which Steve Hogarty explores the wilds of early access. This week, he’s desperately trying to avoid soiling himself in Mist Survival.

Developer: Dimension 32 Entertainment

Publisher: Dimension 32 Entertainment

Release: Out now (early access)

On: Windows

From: Steam

For: 8.29

Of all the different forms of precipitation, mist is by far the spookiest. Mist is the last thing you want to see wafting out of a sepulchre, or coiling ominously around an abandoned log cabin on a moonlit night. Fog very much the Paul Chuckle to mist s Barry will do in a tight spot, but to really get your intestines pumping with fear enzymes, it s just got to be a creeping layer of good old-fashioned mist entwining itself around your bare ankles like the ice-cold fingers of your restless ancestors. (For the record, the least frightening form of precipitation is hailstones, which if they were to come flying at you from out of a crypt would be more confusing than scary.)

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