4 Penny Coffins Lets You Play 19th-Century Detective – Or a 10-Foot Demon Ripping Friends in Half

4 Penny Coffins is Jack the Ripper Meets Among Us, with a little bit of Psychonauts thrown in for fun. In the upcoming social investigation game, up to 8 players hunt a hidden murderer through lies, shifting alibis, and hard evidence. One of the players is the Ripper, a “gleeful demon concealed behind a facade of humanity,” stalking the winding alleys and rotting byways of 1888 London. Ahead of IGN debuting 4 Penny Coffins’s gameplay teaser during gamescom 2026, which you can see in the player below, I spoke to Other Ocean Interactive Marketing Manager Jared Petty about the game’s mechanics, unique style (think stylized gore on top of monochromatic photographs), and Tim Schafer-inspired humor.