Psychasm

1995 Inscape Platform: PC Psychasm was a very intriguing action game in development at Inscape around 1995, the studio responsible for a number of CD-ROM titles including The Dark Eye, Drowned God and Bad Day on the Midway. Very little seems to have ever been documented about this project, and it would ultimately disappear without a trace. The game was highlighted to Games That Weren’t thanks to JomSpoons, who has been researching Inscape and managed to uncover several rare references to the title, as well as tracking down composer Glenn Scott Lacey, who worked on the game’s music and audio. One of the earliest known references comes from an interview with Inscape founder Michael Nash in Computer Player, Volume 2, Issue 2. At the time, Inscape had yet to publish any software and Nash discussed four projects that the newly established studio had in development: Bad Day on the Midway, Devo Presents: Adventures of the Smart Patrol, The Dark Eye and Psychasm. Where the other projects…