Night Trap: 25th Anniversary Edition

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Night Trap: 25th Anniversary Edition casts you as a security agent guarding a house full of teenagers from vampiric Augers. You switch between camera feeds to spot intruders and trigger traps like electrified fences and explosive paintball guns. Timing and positioning matter, each wrong move lets the creatures escape or kill a guest. Your choices affect how many victims you save and which of four endings you reach. The core gameplay loops around quick reflexes and camera juggling, with a focus on precision over action. The anniversary edition adds hours of bonus content including documentaries, deleted scenes, and a new survival mode. A prototype level called Scene Of The Crime lets you explore unused story beats. Despite a low IGDB score of 50/100, the 30 achievements offer stiff competition, especially the 1.8% unlocked "Commander" trophy. The 2017 re-release brings sharper visuals but retains the tense, methodical pacing of the 1992 original. Switch and Vita ports make it portable, though the small screens may strain the camera-switching gameplay.

Storyline

The player plays as an agent of the Special Control Attack Team (S.C.A.T.), swapping between various security cameras trying to save the guests in the Martin home from vampire like creatures called "Augers". To do this, the player controls a series of traps that will kill the creatures if they are set off at the right time and if the agent is watching the room the Augers show up in. Depending on the player's timing and the colors of the cameras the player can either succeed or fail. The player can also reach different endings depending on how many Augers and Martin family members are captured.