By: Julia Yang

Warning: The game discussed will contain hyper-realistic mutant animals, distorted bodies, unsettling sounds, blood, and possibly death. This is a physiological horror game with horror elements.

‘Zoochosis’ is a game that is being published and developed by Clapperheads. Clapperheads is a less known game development company but is recognized for their most popular game ‘Sparky Marky’. Zoochosis’ official announcement was on January 13th and is said to be released in Q2 2024.

The idea of ‘Zoochosis’ is that you’re a zookeeper doing your nightly shift of creating a vaccine to cure mutated animals. From what it looks like, throughout the game you’ll have to notice small shifts or differences within all animals to be able to tell who’s mutated or not.

Based on the game trailer, animals will try to fool you by acting as their average selves, the reason why is unknown as of now.

People who have watched the trailer, or maybe seen stuff about the game floating around on the internet, are really looking forward to ‘Zoochosis’. People like the idea, design, premise, and overall vibe of the game.

Something people seem to have a few worries about is the delivery. The game itself and the idea is awesome, but delivering this game and story well could be challenging. There are many games like ‘Zoochosis’ that have an incredible trailer and outlook, but when released, are total a letdown. A possible example of this could be Scott Cawthons ‘FNAF: Security Breach’. It looked great and everyone looked forward to it, but when it was released, many people had complaints and issues about the characters, story, and overall gameplay.

I hope ‘Zoochosis’ doesn’t go down the same path as some other games and it actually lives up to it’s fame.

Warning: this game will contain hyper-realistic mutant animals, distorted bodies, unsettling sounds, blood, and possibly death. This is a physiological horror game with horror elements.

Once it gets released, it’ll be on PC via ‘Steam’.
Official trailers listed below.

Announcement trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx76uvIDU3s

Exclusive gameplay teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5XutwxCIYY