The Scourge (video game)

The Scourge (Vietnamese: Tai ương) is a first-person puzzle horror video game with elements of adventure, inspired by Vietnamese urban legends from the 1990s. The game was co-developed by Vietnamese company Rare Reversee – also the game's publisher – and Beaztek Studio. Set in Ho Chi Minh City between the 1970s and 1990s, the game follows Nhật Huy, a young man who is inadvertently drawn into strange phenomena at Phong Xích Lan apartment building, which then opens up a journey to investigate the mysterious death of his entire family. However, the deeper he digs, the more horrifying truths he discovers behind his family's past and the entire apartment building.

Gameplay

The Scourge is an intense first-person horror game that combines adventure, puzzle, and survival gameplay. Players take on the role of Lê Đặng Nhật Huy – a young man who returns to his old apartment building to investigate the mysteries surrounding the deaths of his parents and younger sister. During his investigation, he becomes increasingly involved in a series of terrifying supernatural phenomena occurring right where he lives.

Throughout the game, players control Nhật Huy as he moves through the dark corridors and cramped spaces of the building, collecting items, reading documents, and solving puzzles to unlock new areas and gradually uncover previously hidden secrets. Without weapons for self-defense, players must rely on their observation skills, quick reflexes, and logical thinking to survive. Simultaneously, the gameplay reveals pieces of Nhật Huy's family past, leading to horrifying truths behind

Synopsis

Plot

Chapter 1

The game's opening scene takes place on the morning of 26 January 2009, after the parents of Lê Đặng Nhật Huy passed away in a traffic accident the previous night.