Fellow perfect gamers, I would like to use this thread to share some videogames that have slaaneshi vibes/influence/inspiration. So far, I have only played three titles that gave me those vibes: Lust from Beyond, Layers of Fear and Warframe-the Duviri Paradox.
Lust from Beyond is a horror survival game with some NSFW scenes, mainly sex and violence. You get caught in the war between two pleasure cults (one more debased and degenerate and one more elegant and refined), and end up exploring the plane (kinda inspired in Leviathan's labyrinth from Hellraiser 2, but made of flesh a la Slaanesh) of a rather lovecraftian god of pleasure. The gameplay was rather bad though, imo. The combat is very lacking and the plot is kinda slow. But the graphics are so nice, and the pleasure plane is just magnificent in its decadence. The creatures that inhabit it are top design, specially some flying weird dragonflies with porcelain doll faces. Pretty slaaneshi, if you ask me. Mid game, but good enough for a couple of hours. The interest here is the aesthetics.
Layers of Fear is another survival horror. In this case, you are a victorian painter (the victorian house and the multiple painting in the game are gorgeous!) coming back home, and facing the death of your family, while you try to finish your final masterpiece painting. This game is great in every aspect. Linear, yes, like many horror games of this type, but entertaining and fascinating. Paint using charred skin, see how the painting look back at you, and get more and more obsessed. It's really good, I insist. The graphics are simply amazing! I like the fact that it let's you explore artistic obsession and madness, given that it is an obsession mentioned a lot in BL books about EC/Fulgrim/Slaanesh. So, all in all, I greatly recommend it.
Finally, The Duviri Paradox. I had never played Warframe before (it's not the kind of MMO I like), but I saw a promotional image of this expansion, and it captivated me. You can play it directly and for free (or at least you could when it was released), without touching any other place in the Warframe game. Your character is trapped in some sort of clockwork/digital; world-prison, governed by a capricious king that controls every aspect. The gamepley is ok if you like that kind of game but, yet again, the real interest lies in the aesthetics! It is probably one of the most slaaneshi things I have seen: elegant, decadent, onirical, luxurious, harmonious, broken... I enjoyed SO much the graphics and the designs. The antagonist is modelled as some kind of harlequin king, rich and extravagant. The city were he reigns is really elegant, colorful, splendent, yet abandoned and decadent. Everything looks so rich and luxurious, and artificial, fake and creepy somehow. One of the main threats is a clockworl chinese dragon that feels the perfect example of a daemon engine! And you get a customizable mount (a clockwork horse) that would be fitting for a champion of She-who-thirsts! There is also a metaphore with a broken child's toy that adds a lot of slaaneshi depth to it, I really liked that detail. I played it to completion once and loved it so much that even today, several years later, I still remember it fondly. Never played Warframe again though. I add the trailers, so you can get an idea of the aesthetics:
Lust from Beyond is a horror survival game with some NSFW scenes, mainly sex and violence. You get caught in the war between two pleasure cults (one more debased and degenerate and one more elegant and refined), and end up exploring the plane (kinda inspired in Leviathan's labyrinth from Hellraiser 2, but made of flesh a la Slaanesh) of a rather lovecraftian god of pleasure. The gameplay was rather bad though, imo. The combat is very lacking and the plot is kinda slow. But the graphics are so nice, and the pleasure plane is just magnificent in its decadence. The creatures that inhabit it are top design, specially some flying weird dragonflies with porcelain doll faces. Pretty slaaneshi, if you ask me. Mid game, but good enough for a couple of hours. The interest here is the aesthetics.
Layers of Fear is another survival horror. In this case, you are a victorian painter (the victorian house and the multiple painting in the game are gorgeous!) coming back home, and facing the death of your family, while you try to finish your final masterpiece painting. This game is great in every aspect. Linear, yes, like many horror games of this type, but entertaining and fascinating. Paint using charred skin, see how the painting look back at you, and get more and more obsessed. It's really good, I insist. The graphics are simply amazing! I like the fact that it let's you explore artistic obsession and madness, given that it is an obsession mentioned a lot in BL books about EC/Fulgrim/Slaanesh. So, all in all, I greatly recommend it.
Finally, The Duviri Paradox. I had never played Warframe before (it's not the kind of MMO I like), but I saw a promotional image of this expansion, and it captivated me. You can play it directly and for free (or at least you could when it was released), without touching any other place in the Warframe game. Your character is trapped in some sort of clockwork/digital; world-prison, governed by a capricious king that controls every aspect. The gamepley is ok if you like that kind of game but, yet again, the real interest lies in the aesthetics! It is probably one of the most slaaneshi things I have seen: elegant, decadent, onirical, luxurious, harmonious, broken... I enjoyed SO much the graphics and the designs. The antagonist is modelled as some kind of harlequin king, rich and extravagant. The city were he reigns is really elegant, colorful, splendent, yet abandoned and decadent. Everything looks so rich and luxurious, and artificial, fake and creepy somehow. One of the main threats is a clockworl chinese dragon that feels the perfect example of a daemon engine! And you get a customizable mount (a clockwork horse) that would be fitting for a champion of She-who-thirsts! There is also a metaphore with a broken child's toy that adds a lot of slaaneshi depth to it, I really liked that detail. I played it to completion once and loved it so much that even today, several years later, I still remember it fondly. Never played Warframe again though. I add the trailers, so you can get an idea of the aesthetics:
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