in honor of Halloween season what’s your favorite horror game for the sad?
Title. I’m looking to add some new games to the library to play I honor of my favorite holiday. What are some of your favorites? Bonus points for hidden gems!
Lots of good suggestions in these comments so I’ll throw a couple oddball suggestions out just for fun. Dredge isn’t exactly a full-on horror game, but has some Lovecraftian horror elements, and I really enjoyed it. Not sure that kind of horror really fits the holiday though, so I’ll also suggest Pumpkin Jack, which is even less of a horror game, but is a pretty enjoyable 3D platformer with a lot of inspiration from the season and holiday.
Hardly a hidden gem, but Silent Hill 2, playable via PCSX2. Might get an abandonedware version to work on modern PCs. But PCSX2 + upscaling is sufficient.
Definitely should go with PC enhanced edition these days. Easy to get setup with the new install wizard. Loads of new features, graphical improvements, and bug fixes. Even fixes for bugs that persist in all console versions of the game. Of course, one could wait for the new version to come out in about a year.
A few options that range from slightly spooky to pretty scary: Alan Wake, Oxenfree, Dead Space, Five Nights at Freddy’s Security Breach, Night in the Woods, Inside, Limbo
I’m not super big in horror games. I think the genre doesn’t really lend itself to content longer than a few hours and way too many developers think “difficult=scary” which makes horror games pretty frustrating for me. That being said, I played The Iron Lung a few months ago and really enjoyed it. Short, cheap, with a crazy unique setting and game play mechanics. It’s worth a shot if you’ve got a few bucks and an hour or two to kill.
The Cat Lady. It’s a point and click style game that is well recieved even ten years on since its release, and has since become the first in a trilogy of sorts. Good writing, multiple endings, sad+spook with some good twists. Gameplay is definitely limited, art can be a bit unusual, but what it has to offer is worth your time.
For the sad? Probably SOMA. It’s got a pretty distinct style of horror and even though it was really popular I don’t hear a ton of people talking about it any more.
I have heard the game Lisa is an interesting mix or humor, sadness, and horror.
There’s also some interesting games on itch.io amongst all Five Nights At Freddie’s style games. The Salt Order is one of my favorites.
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