Zdzisław Beksiński seems to be a heavy influence, more so than Giger.
Their kickstarter failed to reach it's target sadly, so hopefully they can pull something interesting together with the resources they have.

UPDATE: Even though our Kickstarter campaign didn't manage to raise money for the game we did manage to acquire funding from a private investor. The development on Scorn is ongoing.

http://www.scorn-game.com/index.php/about/kickstarter

While I love it when developers have the courage and funding to do something bold and different artistically, I imagine I wouldn't feel better after playing that.

I get the appeal of more typical horror; being afraid is thrilling and can feel liberating when you know you're actually safe. But the feeling I get from this is not that it's scary but more along the lines of "wow, look at those suffering freaks suffer with no end in sight". It's like spending a few hours looking at the most disturbing pictures of birth defects and leprosy you can find, without the possible benefit of empathizing with a real experience that other people could have.

I'm not trying to denigrate people who like it, I'm just baffled. Can anyone explain the appeal to me?

Freaky deaky!

Technical execution on the art is *really* poor in too many areas.

Tool Video: The Video Game!