Madison (video game)
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Cover art featuring a hand touching a camera | |
| Developer | Bloodious Games |
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| Director | Alexis Di Stefano |
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| Engine | Unity |
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| Release | July 8, 2022
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| Genre | Psychological horror |
| Mode | Single-player |
Madison (stylized as MADiSON) is a first-person horror video game developed and published by Argentine studio Bloodious Games. It was first released on July 8, 2022, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S. Perpetual Games localized and published the game internationally on Nintendo Switch consoles on August 26, 2022. A VR version of MADiSON was ported to PSVR2 and PCVR platforms in January 2023. The players control Luca, a teenage boy who receives a cursed instant camera for his sixteenth birthday. The cast was designed and modeled by Asad Manzoor, Alberto Castillo, Shuel Duo, and Sol Cousillas.
Development of the game started in 2016, and was announced with a demo released on itch.io in 2017, which received universal acclaim. With Bloodious Games continuing the development of MADiSON into 2021. MADiSON was a commercial success and earned positive reviews for the handling of the quality of the puzzles and the balanced tension. It would win multiple awards, though critics divided on the lack of originality.