Backlog December 2025 - Obscure

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 Obscure - PC (Steam)


(Picture taken from the ROE YouTube Channel - a great RE fan channel that interviewed the people involved in the full motion videos that play at the start and end of the very first game. It took many years to try and track these people down and since then the channel has worked with them on a number of short films, including The Keeper's Diary - a short inspired by a note that can be found in the first game. ROE did two cast reunion videos - the first video has the people that played Chris Redfield, Barry Burton, and Albert Wesker and the second video includes the people who played Rebecca Chambers, Chris Redfield, Barry Burton and Albert Wesker).

Completed 19th December 2025

I will keep this brief:

  • Co op Survival Horror game originally released on the PS2.
  • Play with a friend or with an AI partner (you can swap between characters when you want).
  • Similar in ways to RE: Zero.
  • Very 2000 feeling (it is a time capsule from the Nu-metal era where Punk bands like Sum 41 were at the height of their popularity - Sum 41 even feature in the PS2 version).
  • I remember playing a demo of the game many years ago.
  • It has a nice balance of combat/exploration and puzzle solving.
  • Overall, a very enjoyable game but not quite in the calibre as other games in the genre of the time (e.g. RE, Silent Hill etc)
  • Sum 41 plays during the intro video and really helps set the time period that the game took place in, but the Steam version replaces the Sum 41 track with a rather generic rock one. (See the video I created below which plays the PS2 intro and the Steam intro for comparison).
  • I was surprised how good the music was in the game. I looked up who composed it and Oliver Deriviere name came up - he worked on the excellent Streets of Rage 4 soundtrack.
  • The game feels like a playable version of 'The Faculty' movie (which itself feels like a teen version of the Invasion films that were released).

Score 7/10

Original Intro with Sum 41 and the Steam Version with a replacement track.


The Faculty Movie Trailer 


Obscure: An Unsung Survival Horror Hero

Avalanche Reviews posted an excellent review of the game.