I’m sure I wasn’t the only child who spent hours on end completely immersed in one of those ‘choose-your-own-adventure’ books, where you’d have a dice and pages of writing at the ready for every decision you made. Well, Section Games have strived to serve that particular brand of nostalgia with their text-based horror adventure Vlad the Impaler. Read more …
It has become fashionable now for horror games to have no combat, or at least very little. I suppose it makes sense. For example, in DreadOut, the protagonist is a petite Indonesian school girl. The thought of her engaging rambling monstrosities in hand-to-hand combat is a little ludicrous. Read more …
The protagonists in horror games are often under-powered individuals, with the scare factor emanating from the fact that these everyday weaklings have to face off against fearsome foes. Well, Krillbite Studio’s went for the jugular when they made the protagonist of their first-person horror game, Among the Sleep, a toddler. Read more …
Outlast is a survival horror game released last year that terrified and traumatised gamers more than any game before it. Now, with the release of the much-anticipated Whistleblower DLC, we get to do it all again. Read more …
A survival horror game in which an unfortunate individual finds themselves trapped in an abandoned mental asylum with a horrific, bloody past? No, it’s not Outlast. It’s Daylight, available now on Steam and PS4. Read more …
I decided to begin 2014 as I meant to go on, being chased through Victorian machinery by hideous creatures. For this edition of Z1G’s Horror Show, I played Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs. Read more …