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Virtual reality will save games from itself
Do we really want to be scared?
Five Nights at Freddy’s won’t let your fear of animatronics rest
“It’s the creepiest game of musical statues I’ve ever played.”
Within’s impossible spaces play with your anxiety
You’re a lab rat chasing the cheese around a maze devised to break your mind.
Placing faith in The Last Cargo’s atheist allegory
Life beyond the altar.
How Among the Sleep hopes to take survival horror back to its roots
The power of powerlessness.
The Yellow Wallpaper lets you, too, shatter the domestic sphere
From the crucible of another game jam—this time it’s the Public Domain Jam—an adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” has emerged [play here]. Famous for its visceral depiction of obsessive behavior (H.P. Lovecraft was a noted fan) as much as its social subtext, “
Horror games should be intentionally un-fun, says horror game designer
Videogames are stuffed to the brim with “fun” little feedback loops, like level-maxing and crossbow upgrades and loot-a-thons. But according to Thomas Grip, author of some of the most hair-raising horror games around, such as Amnesia: The Dark Descent and the anticipated SOMA, those delicious system
For once, a Lovecraft videogame adaptation done right
Think outside the bug-creatures.
Daylight turns the mundanity of procedural generation into terror
Round and round we go.
OMORI is equal parts Final Fantasy and Eraserhead
You’d be forgiven for thinking horror games have lost their edge lately. The current torchbearer is Amnesia: start with a weird fiction pedigree, keep the player on her toes with careful formal elements, and pop in a horrific slavering hellspawn when all else fails. Games like Slender and its YouTub
The sci-fi thriller Caffeine looks horrifying, unlike actual caffeine, which is great
As I’m writing this I am running on caffeine the same way that a Hummer H1 “runs” on gasoline. Caffeine to me is this beautiful substance that lets me be a writer. So when I heard the words “support Caffeine on Indiegogo” I am totally into it. Australian game developer Dylan Browne, on the other han
Depths of Fear: Knossos is an interactive B-movie
The labyrinth of ineffectual design choices.
Don’t look for order in the horror of Knock-Knock
It will kill you.
The pure terror of Fingerbones would make Hitchcock proud
An exercise in dread.
Inside the horror game that wants to lower your anxiety
Nevermind fuses biological feedback to help your everyday life.
The deeply troubling, cathartic Serena is available now
Transforming pain into art.
How The Vanishing of Ethan Carter took over the Internet with three .gifs
Adrian Chmielarz of the Astronauts tells us of unspeakable horrors.
How DreadOut combines Indonesian horror with the PlayStation 1
These teens and their damn cellphones.
Mastaba Snoopy is a Cronenbergian nightmare vision of childhood
Long live the new flesh, indeed.
Eldritch conjures the ghoulishness of Lovecraft without all the goofiness
We encourage all comments on this piece to be written in a Lovecraft impression.
New Oculus Rift game makes playing videogames horrifying
Players enter a virtual living room where they’ll attempt to finish a first-person shooter that gets troublingly realistic.
In praise of the videogame haunted house
All bets are off.