I remember there was some audio focused sci-fi horror game made by a Swedish studio back in 2003 or so. At least I remember a lot of preview coverage in Swedish media, not sure what happened with it or what the name of it was.
Please tell me it's in English!
I really can't remember much of it, I'll dig around and see if I can find out what it was.
Edit: Sadly it doesn't seem to be, I think I found it, "Akatallas Hemlighet" (or, "The Secret of Akatella"). It yields the stunning 16 results on Google, with no screenshots whatsoever, just a couple of news articles from 2001, and a brief mention in a master's thesis from 2008 from the Department of Design Sciences at Lund University (in English). There seems to be only one copy of the game at one library in the entire country.
Also seems like it wasn't so much horror as a puzzle game, where you're tasked with restoring the air supply on your space ship that has had an accident while travelling between Earth and one of it's colonies.
Interesting thread. Both of those game concepts that you're describing have come out in more recent years, and excecuted astoundingly well,using binaural simulation to create accurate 3D surround sound just through standard stereo headphones.
The games are by a small English indie called Somethin' Else. The first game is called Papa Sangre, and is a survival horror game set underground in a temple. The second is Nightjar, same basic principle but set on a spaceship on which the electricity has gone, so again playing in the dark. Because Papa Sangre was such a huge success (bviously it would be, as a survival horror game with no visuals is a great idea), they had more money this time, and could afford tohire benedict cumberbatch to do all of the voiceover work.
Papa Sangre 2 has just come out, this time they hired Sean Bean to do all the voiceover work. Theyhave also just released their game engine to the public, a licencable version for commercial games, and a basic free version for students etc, with a 10 min gameplay limit. Worth checking out - called 'papa engine'.
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