Swedish Studio Wrong Organ Follows Mouthwashing With Co-op Tank Horror Carcass Clad

Claustrophobic, oppressive, pretty depressing – these are the words Jeffrey Tomec and Dave van Egdom volunteer when asked to reflect on their work as part of Swedish indie developer Wrong Organ. I would add nightmare-inducing, too. Their last game, Mouthwashing, was an acclaimed work of horror storytelling set on a scuttled space freighter, in which players uncover the horrible things its desperate crew have done to each other.

When planning a follow-up to something so pitilessly nasty, how do you raise the stakes? You could set the entire game in the stifling crew compartment of a heavily armoured tank, a coffin-like interior shared with two other players as you co-operatively attempt to pilot your beleaguered war machine to safety through the crumbling remains of a city in enemy territory. While there is undoubtedly tonal overlap, the roaring engine powering Carcass Clad is gameplay rather than scriptwriting.

In Mouthwashing, every single thing we were doing was about trying to make that script come to life in any way possible, says Tomec, the gameplay lead. Every gameplay sequence, everything you do at every point is just there to make that story hit.