Mystery Flesh Pit National Park is a science-horror archive created by Trevor Roberts, who set out to come up with a register similar to that of the SCP Foundation. For the past few years, Roberts has fleshed out the contents of this project, which has become quite remarkable.
Roberts revealed last week that a video game about the Mystery Flesh Pit National Park would be created and funded via a Kickstarter campaign. The game’s story would centre on a team hired by The Permian Basin Recovery Corporation to raise awareness on the park's reopening following a disaster in the past that forced its closure.
Despite the game’s solid premise, Roberts has decided to end the Kickstarter campaign prematurely . He said his decision was influenced by “fan feedback, a fumbled marketing push, internal disputes, and some deep introspection”.
In an interview with Kotaku, Roberts said, “Most people do not fully appreciate what a substantial undertaking it is to produce even a modest video game.
"I personally and meticulously crafted each and every piece of the Mystery Flesh Pit project," he said, adding that something as large as a video game was completely beyond his scope as an individual artist.
He also said that as long as he lived, there would be no endorsed video game adaptations of The Mystery Flesh Pit.
He also told Kotaku that he had no hard feelings towards the developers and that the cancellation of the video game adaptation was a mutual decision.“I sincerely hoped that by scrapping this overly ambitious Kickstarter campaign, I had avoided what might have been, at best, a hurried and subpar gaming experience, and at worst, a complete disaster,” he said.
On a related matter, Robert confirmed that the tabletop adaptation of the Mystery Flesh Pit National Park is in the works. It is being developed using the Cypher System by Monte Cook Games and a Kickstarter campaign is expected to begin in the middle of next year.
But if you are itching to explore the fleshy national park yourself, there is a mod for it on Roblox. Just click this link, and press play on the screen, and you will be able to explore the park. It is entirely up to you whether you want to explore it alone or with friends; just make sure you have Roblox installed on your computer.
According to the story, a geobiological structure found in the Permian Basin region of West Texas in the early 1970s was given the name the Mystery Flesh Pit. The pit is characterised by a massive underground organism that is deeply buried in the ground and whose size is unknown.
Following its discovery, the Anodyne Corporation strengthened and gradually developed the internal section of the flesh pit in addition to enlarging its external orifice. The pit was made public after construction was complete and turned into a tourist destination.
A few years after it opened, the tourist attraction was absorbed into the National Park System and gained its status as a national park. The Flesh Pit, now called the Mystery Flesh Pit National Park, operated until its sudden closure in 2007.
The Mystery Flesh Pit National Park has established itself as a solid archive for various horror IPs, which is perfect for fans of the science horror genre or the SCP Foundation. It is not surprising, then, that plans for a video game adaptation were conceived.
