One of the things that makes Alan Wake 2 a masterpiece is its ability to juggle multiple tones. It’s a dark detective story. It’s a metafictional surrealist horror story. It’s got humor, scares, and even a full-on musical number. Remedy flexed their tonal muscles earlier this year with Alan Wake 2’s first DLC, Night Springs, […]
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Blumhouse has been a mainstay in the horror genre since 2009’s Paranormal Activity, helping in the production of numerous iconic franchises throughout the years. Last year, they entered the video game world, founding a publishing company that would focus on lower budget horror projects. At Summer Games Fest this year, they revealed a lineup of […]
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Combining the nostalgia of the arcade and the local video store, RetroRealms‘ first release delivers two horror classics, Halloween and Ash vs. Evil Dead, in the form of 2D beat ‘em up platformers. Both franchises are brought to life with a beautiful 16-bit pixel art style that creates an enticing package that’s full of reverence […]
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Earlier this year I wrote about how the Silent Hill series played a large part in defining my tastes in horror. As I sit down to start writing this, I’m wearing my Pyramid Head shirt in my office with a map of old Silent Hill on the wall. Nine times out of ten, when you […]
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A great way to create horror is to take something that’s supposed to spark joy, then twist it into something sinister. Pennywise from It, the animatronic horrors of Five Nights at Freddy’s, and Doki Doki Literature Club all understand this concept and wield it like a knife. Clapperheads’ new game Zoochosis applies this concept to […]
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You know how people always feel like there’s too many games coming out? Well one of the year’s most exciting games is actually 50 games in one! UFO 50, a collaboration between the devs behind Splunkey, Downwell, and many other indie classics, just came out, and it presents players with a collection of fifty original […]
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While I think space horror sometimes feels like a known quantity as a subgenre, Mouthwashing, from developer Wrong Organ, constantly kept me on my toes. From its strange title to its jarring opening, it kept me off balance in all the ways good horror should. Right off the bat you can feel the intriguing mix […]
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Despite the fact that big budget game studios seem to have mostly abandoned classic survival horror, there’s definitely still an audience for it. Hollowbody, the latest game from Chasing Static developer Headware Games, proved that by raising over $35,000 on Kickstarter a few years ago. The game takes inspiration from the PlayStation 2 era of […]
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There are two types of people that are going to be attracted to The Casting of Frank Stone: Dead by Daylight fans, looking for a new game set in the universe of their favorite asymmetrical multiplayer game, or Supermassive fans, who want to see the latest cinematic game from the studio behind Until Dawn and […]
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Five years ago, the co-op board game Horrified set you up against Universal Monsters like Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, and the Invisible Man. It mixed clever co-op mechanics reminiscent of classic games like Pandemic with an iconic property to great results. Since then, they released Horrified: American Monsters and Horrified: Greek Monsters, standalone sequels to the […]
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Last week, Hunt: Showdown, the horror-tinged extraction shooter, received its largest update since it was released from Early Access about five years ago. This new version, now titled Hunt: Showdown 1896, includes an engine upgrade, revamped UI, additional roaming target, and a whole new map, the first in three years. Hunt is one of the […]
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One thing I enjoy about the modern indie tabletop RPG space is that when a game comes around with a great foundation, it often gets a ton of support in the form of new adventures from both the original creators and fans alike. Mork Bork, Mothership, and Trophy blew up in popularity largely because of […]
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There are plenty of games about the horrors of war. Spec Ops: The Line famously forces you into morally unthinkable positions as a soldier. This War of Mine throws you in the shoes of a civilian trying to survive in a city under siege. Few games have ever used the lens of the survival horror […]
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While Silent Hill has always been my horror franchise of choice, there are few things that give me a more intense Pavlovian response than the voice saying “RESIDENT EVIL” on the title screen of that game. The PlayStation era was an important step into video games evolving into something more cinematic, and Resident Evil was […]
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It’s the hottest day of the year, and everyone in town is dreaming about ways to cool down. In the world of Triangle Agency, a new tabletop RPG from Haunted Table, these thoughts have an effect on reality itself. The next thing you know, a supernatural anomaly takes shape in the form of an ice […]
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