As a franchise, Silent Hill has been starved of fresh ideas for the better part of two decades. Sure, the most surface-level elements might have changed between entries. Shattered Memories, for instance, made the radical decision to substitute the town’s perpetual fog bank for a snowy blizzard, while Downpour took an even bolder leap and […]
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Bye Sweet Carole plays a devious trick when first booted up, lulling you into a false sense of security and giving off a deliberately misleading impression. In case you’re not aware, the whole shtick of this indie puzzle-platformer is that it’s been painstakingly drawn by hand, with the talented illustrators over at Little Sewing Machine […]
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When Alien: Romulus hit multiplex screens this summer, it raised a handful of questions. Some of the more burning queries included: “Who is the father of Kay’s baby?” (to which the answer is resoundingly grim), “Is Rain’s dream home of Yvaga all it’s cracked up to be?” and “Who, of sound body & mind, would […]
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“Johnson’s Boner can now turn into a HOTBONER! While holding aim, hold the secondary fire button to charge, then release it to deploy your sticky payload.” Were that tutorial popup to appear in literally any other video game, it might raise an eyebrow or two. Yet by the time you’ve reached the relevant juncture in […]
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A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead is not the first horror game to feature blind enemies that are hypersensitive to the sounds you make. House of Ashes has its gnarly space-vampires that rely on echolocation to get around, The Last of Us has its iconic Clickers — caked in fungi that obscures all but their […]
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For a solo developer (working against the inevitable time, resourcing, and technical constraints that come with that territory), Daniel Ferrer has set himself quite the challenge with his latest project. On the surface, Among Ashes may not look like much, boasting — as it does — lo-fi visuals and rudimentary mechanics. But should you afford […]
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As someone who (depending on how charitable you’re feeling) could be described as either a tad deferential, perhaps too meek for their own good, or downright obsequious, 2022’s Speak No Evil went very close to the bone. You see, I’m the type of person whose default state of being is “reflexively apologetic” — often begging […]
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There’s a lovely moment, towards the tail end of Michael Sarnoski’s A Quiet Place: Day One, in which British expat (and, with the best will in the world, complete dweeb) Eric tries to lift the spirits of his post-apocalyptic travel companion. To put it mildly, he and Sam have been through the wringer these past […]
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Putting aside the raging debate about whether it is, in fact, the “scariest film of the decade,” one thing we can all agree upon is that Longlegs is, at the very least, off putting. There’s something about Osgood “Oz” Perkins’ latest that gets under your skin, even if it doesn’t necessarily reduce you to a […]
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Prior to booting up Still Wakes the Deep, you’re confronted with the usual suite of options that you’d expect to find in any contemporary videogame. It’s your opportunity to customise things like the gamma levels, the assorted presentation settings, your HUD preferences and of course, the language that you’ll be hearing throughout the ensuing 5-hour […]
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If you were to shortlist all of the legendary horror films that are crying out for a video game adaptation, it’s unlikely that the first to spring to mind would be the one in which alien invaders encase people inside cotton candy cocoons, so that they can later drink said abductees gelatinised fluids through a […]
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Historical preservation has never been much of a priority in the gaming biz, with this commercially-driven industry preferring to chase after what’s trendy and in vogue, oftentimes at the expense of its own heritage. After all, there’s little profit to be squeezed from varnishing creaky retro titles that are well past their prime (and of […]
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“Everyone knows who Jason is. Everyone can point out The Predator. And, of course, everyone’s familiar with the Ghostbusters!” So says Jared Gerritzen, Chief Creative Officer at IllFonic, as we sit down for a quick interview with him on Discord. He’s certainly an authoritative voice on this matter too, given that he’s worked on adaptations […]
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Maid of Sker hardly set the world on fire when it launched back in 2020, but it had its merits and deservedly attracted a cult following of sorts. Which is rather fitting if you think about it, given the title’s folk-horror themes. As we pointed out in our review, Wales Interactive’s chiller managed to (just […]
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For as long as survival horror has existed, confounding puzzles and bewildering navigation have been staples of the experience. Granted, they did fall out of fashion for a brief period in the late-noughties — when games like Dead Space and Resident Evil 5 pivoted in a more action-oriented direction — but generally they have been […]
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