After the grim goings on of The Evil Within, I thought we’d brighten up the Horror Show this week with a lovely little game about frogs, namely They Breathe, available now on Steam. Read more …
The Evil Within
After the first murderous roller-coaster of a chapter, you’d be forgiven for thinking that The Evil Within was going to be an incredibly tense survival horror game in which the bruised and battered protagonist flees for his life from a series of murderous foes, á la Outlast. Read more …
Five Nights at Freddy’s
For this instalment of my ‘Horror Show’, let’s look at a game in which you play as a security guard tasked with spending five nights watching over a pizza restaurant populated by beloved mascots. I know what you’re thinking, but it’s not Night Watchmen Simulator 2014. It’s Five Nights at Freddy’s, an indie point-and-click horror title developed solely by Scott Cawthon. Read more …
Silent Hill(s) – The Mistakes of Your Youth
Following the release of ‘P.T’ a horror-themed ‘playable teaser’ involving skin-crawling psychological horror and painfully difficult puzzles, it was revealed that a brand new next-gen entry into the venerable Silent Hill series is on the way. Silent Hills is going to be the product of a collaboration between Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro. How exciting! Read more …
P.T. Review (Silent Hills Teaser)
Hideo Kojima stole the show as Gamescom with P.T., an alleged demo for a first-person horror game on the Fox engine available for free on PSN that, once completed, revealed that Kojima and acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro would be working together on the new Silent Hill game, Silent Hills.
It was a deft move and set the internet ablaze. It turned out that ‘P.T.’ was a complete horror experience in itself and the teaser was an unconnected bonus for whoever managed to complete it. At around an hour or two in length, I’ve played and reviewed shorter horror games (Saturn 9 comes to mind). Read more …
5 Terrifying Horror Game Antagonists
As previous readers will know, I love a good horror game. There’s nothing I love more than running down a corridor screaming whilst being chased by some vicious monstrosity (only in video games, obviously). There’s nothing quite like that adrenaline kick, and there’s nothing quite like the repulsively evil characters that elicit it. Read more …