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Some horror games want to scare you. Look Outside wants to crawl under your skin, settle in, and remind you of just how fragile you are — and it succeeds beautifully. This isn’t just another pixel-art “retro horror” release. Look Outside feels like a lost classic, the kind of eerie, rough-edged RPG you would have
Unknown Tapes is a 2024 analogue horror video game created with Unreal Engine 5, developed and published by TraviTeam Games. After releasing the fast-paced, physics-based local PVP fighting game Scroter in April 2024, TraviTeam Games shifted focus toward horror games. The company released Unknown Tapes in December 2024 and is currently working on the sci-fi
Choose Your Own Demise With Ashley Lister’s Novel Horror Concept UK horror author Ashley Lister likely needs no introduction to those of you who devour indie books like midnight snacks after a kegger. With more than sixty books under his belt, you’ve probably read more than one of his titles already. If you haven’t, you
Christmas Massacre is a 2021 seasonal-themed stealth slasher, developed and published by Puppet Combo and Vague Scenario LLC. The game takes inspiration from the gore-drenched horror films of the 70s and 80s such as the Silent Night, Deadly Night series, Black Christmas (1974), and Christmas Evil (1980) to name a few. Christmas is coming and
The Horror of Salazar House (originally titled The Enigma of Salazar House) is a 2020 Gothic, Italian horror-inspired haunted house game with 1-bit pixel art graphics and rotoscope animated cut-scenes, created by Chilean developer Ignacio Maldonado, also known as Maldo19, and released by Torture Star Video—a production subsidiary of American independent game developers Puppet Combo.
Night at the Gates of Hell (2022) is a survival zombie horror game, developed by Jordan King and Henry Hoare, and published by Torture Star Video – a production company run by American independent game developers Puppet Combo. This isn’t Jordan (Also going by the developer name Black Eyed Priest), and Henry’s first foray into
Hellslayers is an upcoming sci-fi survival horror table-top role-playing game inspired by the Doom franchise, created by designer Clifton Lambert, and being released under Fragging Unicorn Games. The game utilises the Mörk Borg TTRPG as a foundation; a unique system designed to be dissected to fit a multitude of different styles of home-brew games. However,
After Spending 20+ hours with Alien Isolation, I can say that it’s one of the best modern horror games in a long while, from its Gameplay to its sound design: almost everything here is a great example of what makes a horror game. Let’s start with the story, shall we? Our main Heroine is Amanda
Bramble: The Mountain King is a single-player adventure platformer video game, developed on the Unreal 4 engine by Swedish game developer Dimfrost Studio and published under Merge Studio. Dimfrost Studio is known for previously creating the story exploration game A Writer and His Daughter (2017); Bramble: The Mountain King is only the second game to
Mothmen 1966 is a 2022 interactive adventure/visual novel developed by LCB Game Studio and published by Chorus Worldwide. LCB Game Studio is a small Argentinian indie developer consisting of novelist Nico Saraintaris handling the writing/programming, and artist Fernando Martinez Ruppel in charge of the visuals. It is the first of a trilogy of upcoming