InThe Tartarus Key, a PS1-style thriller/puzzle/horror game, it’s definitely the latter.

The order of the day is escape, which means solving puzzles to find the key.

This is a concept that, for a retro-stylehorror game, I can more than get behind.

Alex, protagonist of The Tartarus Key, wakes up in the creepy mansion

The trailers released so far show glimpses of more complicated puzzles and different locations, too.

And I’ll tell you what, I don’t bloody trust that Torres.

Sending me off to do all the dirty work myself.

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We all know what happened in Saw.

The Tartarus Key is coming, ominously, “soon”.

Alex, protagonist of The Tartarus Key, talks to Torres, who is sitting by the fire. She’s saying ‘We should also attempt to find out who’s behind this.'

A bathroom in The Tartarus Key showing a bathtub and white tiled floor covered in splashes of dark blood