Tag: Horror
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Slay the Princess: The Pristine Cut – Heart, Lungs, Liver, Nerves
Slay the Princess is a visual novel game with a touch of gore and a story that will make you question everything you think you know about yourself #Horror #Visualnovel #Interactivestorytelling
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Stories Untold – An Experimental Psychological Horror Adventure
Stories Untold is a narrative-driven horror adventure game and a truly remarkable take on the genre. The four episode anthology combines different game mechanics and unique narrative to a thrilling and breathtaking experience. #videogame #narrative-driven #horror #storiesuntold
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Roche Limit Review – A Gravitational Masterpiece
Dive into a surreal, haunting journey built entirely on PowerPoint. With it’s minimalist yet eerie aesthetic, step in, explore, and figure your own metaphor for life’s darkest realities.
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Eldritch horrors and tentacles – Defining what “Lovecraftian” is in games
H.P. Lovecrafts legacy lives today in the shared world of Cthulhu Mythos and its iconic monsters. Prema Arasu defines the meaning of “Lovecraftian” and what it means to consumers through investigating Steam users applying the Lovecraftian tag. #Lovecraftian #Steam #Games #Culture
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The Heartbreaking Story of Little Misfortune
Little Misfortune is a game with adorable art, cute characters and an extremely dark and heavy story. #Horror #InteractiveStorytelling #Adventure
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5-minute horror experience – SEPTEMBER 1999
In this terrifying story, everything is captured through an old camera.
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Bramble: The Mountain King – Nordic fables with explicit violence and gore
A platformer with mythological creatures, a grim atmosphere and frustrating camera angles
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Horrified – Classic Monster Flick Turned to Board Game
Are you too #Horrified to take on the challenge of defeating some classic #Monsters in this #cooperative board game?
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In Sound Mind, a psychological masterpiece
Exploring the minds of mentally ill patients could sound like a twisted thing to do in a video game, but In Sound Mind is a psychological horror game that takes it to another level and makes you dive into it.
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“The way is lit. We require only the strength to follow it”: Darkest Dungeon II’s bigger, badder apocalypse
#DarkestDungeonII promises the return of a beloved cast of heroes, now facing the end times in a #roguelite fashion. Does this #gamesequel capture the feeling of the original and deliver new horrors of its own?
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The Excavation of Hob´s Barrow – Of that which lies in the earth
Vacation on the moors of Britain, full of isolation, primordial & eldritch horrors, and the quaint atmosphere of a small village? The Point-and-click adventure; The Excavation of Hob´s Barrow got you covered.
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Dying on Europa – Barotrauma
This is not a realistic-looking, realistic-playing simulation: these submarines ply their trade in two dimensions in the alien waters of Europa, and have more than torpedoes to worry about.
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Different strokes for different folks – The many types of let’s plays
Let’s players aren’t a one-size-fits-all. In what types of let’s plays are you most interested: comedic, critical, social, or perhaps ASMR?
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Invoking fear and anxiety – case Slender Man
With the right building blocks, even the simplest digital video games can cause strong feelings of anxiety and fear.
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Escape Room The Game: The Little Girl – Forget the terrors, the clock is your true enemy
Escape room board game versions are just like the actual ones – stressful, possibly chaotic, and super fun.
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Paying for Power: A Look Into Dead By Daylight’s Unfair Monetization
Pay-to-win is a problematic phenomenon for games where you can purchase power. This brief analysis of the monetization of Dead by Daylight explores the unfair nature of its monetization.
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Petscop – The Greatest Game You’ll Never Play
What can game developers learn from the most horrifying Let’s Play on the net?
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Ambitious Goals, Poor Narrative Design: The Town of Light Review
The Town of Light had a lot of potential, but unfortunately the end result doesn’t impress.
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Toxic behaviour in Dead by Daylight as perceived by the players.
Researchers used Dead by Daylight’s subreddit to analyze different factors and perceptions surrounding toxic behavior.
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Dead by Daylight; Face the Fear or Hunt the Weak
The classic horror movie chase scene, turned into a survival horror game in this intense 1v4 co-op game. Does Dead by Daylight still have enough energy to keep going after four years? #gamereview