Exposure channels nature’s beauty and brutality into a stealth game

Don’t be fooled by Exposure’s sleek geometric look and minimalist soundtrack. It’s a tense game about hiding from predators, scurrying from one safe space to another, and changing colors for camouflage. It’s the first commercial work from the two-person team The Sheep’s Meow, an indie game studio based in New York. In early 2018, it will be available on Steam for Windows, Mac, and Linux, as well as on the Xbox One.

When I played an early build of Exposure, I found it to be both meditative and stressful. Though I could collect little tokens, the main goal was to survive. I could switch colors to blend in with patches of light and dark, hiding from the sharp-angled predators. The screen continually drifted to the right, forcing me to move from one hiding spot to another. Every time I left myself out in the open, everything began to turn a sinister red.