History VideoGame / DreadHunger

Dread Hunger is a multiplayer social deduction & survival game developed by Slowdrive Studios & Digital Confectioners which make up Dread Hunger Team. Dread Hunger is Digital Confectioners' third game on Steam but is easily the most popular, Depth & LAST TIDE both follow a very similar predator versus man theme but replace the Arctic with the sea. Dread Hunger began public playtesting for free on January 7th, 2021 with several more free public playtests until the game released into paid early access on April 22nd, 2021. It would recieve several major updates with new maps, items, & classes until it reached its official release date on January 26th, 2022.

** Truth in television to a large extent, as by this stage in history the Canadian First Nations were quite familiar with white men and their technology, very often not through their choice.

* {{Gorn}}: The game really goes ham with it's cannibal themes. All attacks reap absurd amounts of blood and gore, all organisms can be sloppily butchered and eaten in great detail, and there are countless scenes of carnage decorating levels, which the player can further add to if they feel [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential "creative"]].

* YouAllLookFamilliar: The early stages of the game has most of the crewmates have the same face with three having the same long hair, with only the Captain and Chaplain withe unique faces until an update gave most of the crew unique designs.

* TwoferTokenMinority: The Hunter is the crew's sole female, as well as the only non-white member aboard.

For the primary inspiration behind Dread Hunger, see Creator/RidleyScott's novel Literature/TheTerror & the [[Series/TheTerror 2018 miniseries adaptation]].

** Truth in television to a large extent, as by this stage in history the Canadian Firt Nations were quite familiar with white men and their technology, very often not through their choice.

Players pick from one of eight characters sent on an expedition to brave the unfriendly Canadian Arctic in search of the North West Passage. Unfortunately, wildlife, starvation, & the elements aren't the only obstacles for the crew. Two of the eight crew mates are agents of a malicious supernatural deity, taken from past expeditions where they would have parished, granted new life to wreak havoc on the expedition through deception, violence, & blood magic.

* Gorn: The game really goes ham with it's cannibal themes. All attacks reap absurd amounts of blood and gore, all organisms can be sloppily butchered and eaten in great detail, and there are countless scenes of carnage decorating levels, which the player can further add to if they feel [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential "creative"]].

* CastofSnowflakes: Each one of the eight crewmates is visually distinct from the others, wildly differing in both physique & attire. From the young, weedy Chaplain to the obese, permanently-smiling Cook, no two explorers look alike.

* CannibalLarder: Dread Hunger contains a heap of naked mutilated corpses in every map, which you can even skin & eat if you find yourself in a dire situation! You can even arrange your victims' limbs in a decorative fashion.

* SocialDeductionGame: Dread Hunger follows the basic formula of six innocent players & two traitors, popularized by the wildy succesful VideoGame/AmongUs. Other contemporaries include the 2.5D equivalent in VideoGame/ProjectWinter & the popular VideoGame/GarrysMod game mode VideoGame/TroubleInTerroristTown.

* TwoferTokenMinority: The Hunter is the crew's sole female, as well as the only non-white member aboard.

* LowCultureHighTech: The Hunter is seemingly still able to operate & repair a Flintlock Pistol or Musket despite being found deep within the Canadian Arctic according to events in the tutorial.
** Truth in television to a large extent, as by this stage in history the Canadian Firt Nations were quite familiar with white men and their technology, very often not through their choice.

* LowCultureHighTech: The Hunter is seemingly still able to operate & repair a Flintlock Pistol or Musket despite being found deep within the Canadian Arctic according to events in the tutorial.

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