Power Drill Massacre is a survival horror game in development by Puppet Combo. The game's demo is available for download on Puppet Combo's Patreon and Itch.io pages. Officially Puppet Combo has stated that the full game is expected to be released sometime in 2024.
In the Steam Next Fest a second and improved demo for Power Drill Massacre was released with new visuals, better AI, and an actual inventory system. Currently the demo's story remains the same.
Summary[]
In 1987, Megan and her boyfriend, Jeff, get in a devastating car crash. Megan soon seeks for help since Jeff is unable to move. Megan stumbles across a factory and decides she can ask for help there. She soon realizes she is trapped in the factory with a crazed killer wielding a power drill. Can Megan survive the Driller Killer?
Gameplay (Demo)[]
After escaping a car crash, the player goes and looks for help with a flashlight from the trunk of the car. After looking around the area, you see a factory and decide to go inside. Once entered, the door behind you locks. The player is then forced to find a way out while avoiding the Driller Killer. Eventually you find a door that needs to be unlocked, and the door contains three color painted keyholes. The player can find these colored keys, or alternatively go through a maze called the Sugar Tunnel. Every time the player dies, the keys spawn in a different location. In some areas, there are articles the player can read; these articles talk about different missing victims.
Endings[]
Ending A (True Ending/Update Ending): After the player (Megan) gets the three color keys and unlocks the exit door, the player sees a girl running down a long, dark hallway. Once the hallway turns red, the girl stops and the killer attacks Megan. Running down the hallway, the player gets chased as the killer's screeches get louder and louder. The hallway will get brighter and slow down, until the screen turns white. A radio has audio of the killer screaming in frustration due to Megan successfully escaping. After that, the audio cuts to a news report saying that Megan and Jeff are both missing, after the radio you can hear screaming by an unknown person and you can see the moon and the mountains getting darker. After that, the game ends and closes itself.
Ending B (Bad Ending/Original Ending): Instead of the player getting the three color keys, the player can go down the maze called the Sugar Tunnel. In the maze, there are lots of flashing images and the player is stuck in the maze with the killer. At the end of the maze, the player has time to investigate what appears to be a lair. In the lair, there are human/dog cages, corpses, kids drawings, broken toilets and a piano. After investigating or running out of time, the player is caught by the killer. This time, the player is not killed, instead Megan is trapped in a cage. As Megan is crying, the killer went to check on Megan, causing Megan to scream. The killer attempts to communicate with Megan, however, it seems that he is too far gone and mumbles only gibberish. He puts down a music box playing the ending music. After the music stopped, the killer then runs toward Megan and kills her. The game ends with this text.
"AND DEATH AND HELL WERE CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. THIS IS THE SECOND DEATH"- REVELATION 20:14
The game then ends and closes.
Trivia[]
- Ben Cocuzza worked on the HD remake and the sequel of the Power Drill Massacre, but both projects were eventually cancelled.[1][2]
- One version of the sequel was going to take place in the desert inside an abandoned mall, while another version in a seemingly abandoned school. One version was also titled "Murder House".
- Ben Cocuzza instead made the arcade version of Power Drill Massacre, the project is complete.
- The game is getting a VR version, it is currently in development.[3]
- The Driller Killer's appearance may be based on Michael Myers from the movie Halloween (1978).
- There is a rumor that the screeching sounds made by The Driller during chases are from pigs being killed in a slaughterhouse.
- PDM was actually a remake of Puppet Combo's earlier game Minotaur, which he was porting from 3D GameStudio to Unity. At the time the game had been renamed to "MURDER HOUSE" but later on in development he changed it to "Power Drill Massacre".
- The hidden pop-up pictures of nude women were paintings by the 19th-20th century Austrian painter Egon Schiele.
- After the radio broadcast from the True Ending fades out, a music box can be heard accompanying shrilled screams in the background. This song is actually the music box version of a melody called "Teddy Bear's Picnic", originally composed in 1907 by John Walter Bratton.
- Despite being released in 2015 and considered by many as a full game for years, Puppet Combo claimed that a full version would be released in 2024. This will presumably be a "definitive edition" in the same vein as Nun Massacre.
Gallery[]
References[]
 Power Drill Massacre
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Media | Power Drill Massacre • Arcade Edition • Documents • Soundtrack • Version History • Puppet Combo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Characters | Players | Christine Wilbur | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NPCs | Jeff West • Megan Brooke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Enemies | Driller Killer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Unseen | Abe Bradley • Bob Gibb • Charlie Plank • David Ashford • Laurie Summers • Mason C. Sargent • Russel Mort • Sargent Bailey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Items | Flashlight • Keys | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Locations | Setting | Pocono Mountains, Pennsylvania | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Places | Branden Sawmill (Sugar Tunnel, The Sunshine Children's Orphanage) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||