4 Penny Coffins is Jack the Ripper Meets Among Us, with a little bit of Psychonauts thrown in for fun. In the upcoming social investigation game, up to 8 players hunt a hidden murderer through lies, shifting alibis, and hard evidence. One of the players is the Ripper, a “gleeful demon concealed behind a facade of humanity,” stalking the winding alleys and rotting byways of 1888 London.
Ahead of IGN debuting 4 Penny Coffins’s gameplay teaser during gamescom 2026, which you can see in the player below, I spoke to Other Ocean Interactive Marketing Manager Jared Petty about the game’s mechanics, unique style (think stylized gore on top of monochromatic photographs), and Tim Schafer-inspired humor.
“It’s a goddamn blast,” Petty says. “Four Penny Coffins; I’ve rarely had more fun playing a game with other people. A long time ago I was talking to Tim Schafer and I was asking him about humor in video games. Tim’s opinion is that humor in video games is the easiest thing in the world because to paraphrase, ‘Our medium was built on a little yellow man that eats dots being chased by ghosts.’
“Humor and horror have always gone together so well. [Four Penny Coffins] having a multiplayer mode and being a very socially-oriented one creates all kinds of opportunities. Our philosophy was that the comical allows you to laugh so you don’t scream.”
Petty says that the game’s humor translates directly into a multiplayer experience where you’re rewarded for trying to work together, but only if you want to.
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