A long-time favorite of tabletop RPG players, Call of Cthulhu brings the cosmic horror of H.P. Lovecraft (and his successor storytellers) home. First released in 1981, and currently on its 7th…
March 21, 2024 | 09:00 EDT
Alan Wake 2 is easily one of the best survival horror games I’ve ever played. Unfortunately, it’s also one of the most problematic that I’ve reviewed. Does that make sense? Well, allow me to explain…
October 26, 2023 | 09:00 EDT
World of Horror is a roguelite horror title inspired by the look and theme of mangaka like Junji Ito. Taking severe inspiration from 1980s horror and computer graphics, how does World of Horror…
October 18, 2023 | 10:00 EDT
Well, it’s been a long-time coming, but Dead Island 2 is finally here. After being trapped in development hell since its original announcement in 2014, the original first-person tropical zombie-…
April 18, 2023 | 10:00 EDT
Horror games have always been the next step to immersion compared to their TV and movie counterparts. Whether you're slowly pacing through an eastern European village in Resident Evil 4, or peering…
January 30, 2023 | 09:30 EST
I won't mince words - The Mortuary Assistant scared the absolute daylights out of me, and I'm very lucky I didn't have nightmares when I fell asleep right after playing. The game opens with a warning…
August 2, 2022 | 08:00 EDT
Near the end of Supermassive Games’ new title The Quarry, I found myself feeling something I’d seldom felt from any of their more recent offerings: Gratification. A monster was stalking one of…
June 15, 2022 | 11:00 EDT
Imagine if David Lynch or David Cronenberg began their artistic pursuits as game developers during the mid-90s instead of filmmakers in the 60s. That's the immediate connection I felt when…
May 31, 2022 | 10:30 EDT
No one screamed louder than me when watching The Game Awards a few years ago when a trailer for Evil Dead: The Game from Saber Interactive was announced for next-gen consoles. I’ve been an Evil Dead…
May 26, 2022 | 11:00 EDT
Horror is a genre often defined by tropes. Be it the unwillingness to play into them or the ability to entirely subvert them - it's a genre more aware of its past than most. Given you have a much…
April 12, 2022 | 11:00 EDT
There was a point in Ikai where I was trapped at the bottom of a well, surrounded by the bones of demons. I had to search through these bones for sturdy pieces of wood to make a ladder using a crack…
March 28, 2022 | 12:00 EDT
For as vast a landscape as games can create, first-person shooters have always been the go-to genre for World War II backdrops. There's always been something about that analog era that's captivated…
March 25, 2022 | 11:30 EDT
Corpse Party is one of those rare titles that, despite its age and the number of re-releases it receives, still holds a certain power over its fans and with good reason. This RPG Maker title,…
November 8, 2021 | 10:00 EST
Horror is a tricky genre to pull off right, at least when it comes to video games. There’s a delicate blend between making sure that the player sees your scares without the game feeling like it’s on…
November 1, 2021 | 10:15 EDT
Indie horror is a fantastic part of the subgenre that allows for very unique avenues of narrative and gameplay. Through it, we often see cool concepts that go beyond what a AAA title may be able to…
October 28, 2021 | 09:00 EDT
Note: This review does contain minor gameplay spoilers for Inscryption. Read at your own discretion. Inscryption is an infuriating game to explain in detail. It is not because of convoluted or…
October 18, 2021 | 11:00 EDT
Sometimes the cutest things can be the most unsettling when placed in disturbing scenarios. It’s not common where you get to experience the story of something adorable trying to survive in a…
October 4, 2021 | 11:00 EDT
I've had an eye on In Sound Mind for a while. Psychological horror is always my jam, and the game seemed to combine the right level of style, scares, and combat that I was seeking. So when the game…
September 27, 2021 | 09:00 EDT
Horror games are a hard genre to make at times. It's actually quite difficult to create something that's scary to a large number of people since our worst fears are often quite disparate with those…
September 17, 2021 | 10:30 EDT
Sometimes a game will completely defy genre, and occasionally that means that the game ends up creating its own genre. Of course, just because the game has created a genre, that doesn’t mean other…
August 26, 2021 | 05:35 EDT
“The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion” is not only a great quote if you want to sound smart, but it’s also quite appropriate given the…
August 18, 2021 | 03:00 EDT
Even during a pandemic, Wales Interactive finds a way to produce more FMV adventure games. It's been their bread 'n butter since the mid-2010s, so there's no reason to stop. That frequency has…
August 11, 2021 | 11:30 EDT
Even after spending several dozen hours with Farm 51's Chernobylite, I still have absolutely no idea what genre to classify it in. Is it a brutal first-person shooter? A stealth-based survival horror…
July 29, 2021 | 10:00 EDT
You’re alone in a huge house in the dead of night, washing off the blood on your face in the bathroom. You’ve just had a minor nosebleed, and while it’s nothing to worry about, you’ve actually seen…
May 24, 2021 | 09:00 EDT
Returnal can be equal parts exciting and frustrating, its peaks and valleys invoking a wide spectrum of emotions. Thematically, it is a dark psychological sci-fi story that plays with themes of…
May 6, 2021 | 10:30 EDT
I often wonder if Lovecraft's corpse gets tired of being trotted out whenever someone is looking for an easy basis for their indie horror game. Then I think that it doesn't matter if he's tired, the…
March 31, 2021 | 11:00 EDT
Sanity of Morris promotes itself as a sci-fi detective story. An investigation where you are meant to question everything you encounter with a cynical eye, always looking for the rational explanation…
March 22, 2021 | 10:00 EDT
Correction: The review states that the voice actor was the same as the one used in The Jackbox Party Pack. We have received a notice from the developer that it's not the same voice actor. We…
March 10, 2021 | 10:00 EST
Like the first game in the franchise, Little Nightmares II pits a small child against an unyielding world of danger and horrors. Our protagonist, Mono, awakes in a forest, only to discover that…
February 9, 2021 | 10:00 EST
The Dark Pictures series is a horror gaming concept I wish caught on faster: an anthology TV style series of small standalone horror games. Last year's debut installment, Man of Medan, wasn't exactly…
November 2, 2020 | 10:00 EST
Amnesia is a bit of an over-used tool in storytelling. It's a quick way to immediately create a sense of mystery about your character since nothing at all has to be revealed to the viewer. In many…
October 19, 2020 | 09:00 EDT
I stand in front of a hulking behemoth of a boss and wait for it to swing. At the very last moment I roll behind its back and use my heavy attack. I quickly dart out of the way before the next…
July 29, 2020 | 09:00 EDT
Most horror games put players in the shoes of weak protagonists who cower and flee from the monstrous beasts that haunt them. In Carrion, players instead get to take on the role of the monstrous…
July 22, 2020 | 11:06 EDT
There was a part in Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise that boldly sticks in my mind. In order to continue the story, I had to collect three items for a character. This led to a long…
July 8, 2020 | 09:00 EDT
Every few months, the age-old argument for games being legitimate art comes up again, and The Inner Friend has arrived just on time. PLAYMIND's debut game has arrived on Xbox One and PlayStation 4. …
May 7, 2020 | 11:00 EDT
Developer Rock Pocket Games, known for their work on colorful puzzle platformer Shiftlings, alongside publisher Funcom released first-person horror adventure title, Moons of Madness. The studio draws…
April 6, 2020 | 11:00 EDT
Immersion in horror gaming is hard to achieve. More than any other genre, horror requires you to be completely sold on its narrative. That's very tough when the controller and TV are acting as an…
January 15, 2020 | 01:00 EST
I’ve long thought the battle royale genre would benefit from a blend of PVE and PVP. There’s a certain charm to fighting monsters, only to get blindsided by a random player. That style brings a lot…
September 2, 2019 | 01:00 EDT
Supermassive Games, developers of Man of Medan, had an interesting early history. They developed a variety of Little Big Planet DLC and even in a few spinoffs. Then, in 2016, they truly began to show…
August 28, 2019 | 11:00 EDT
There's been a lot of speculation towards Days Gone since it was first announced back in 2016. Right away people worried that it may not be doing enough to stand out from the crowd of open-world…
May 13, 2019 | 02:00 EDT
First-person shooters are, at the best of times, divisive. There are many for whom first-person shooters begin and end with the relatively realistic military stylings of Call of Duty and Battlefield…
December 15, 2018 | 01:00 EST
I love the Call of Cthulhu pen and paper game. It's one of the very few tabletop roleplaying games to keep my attention. I could tell stories all day of Dr. Jack Copper, my character who went a…
October 29, 2018 | 08:00 EDT
When you think of Hell, you probably think of terms like "sinner" or "demon" or even "eternal-place-of-damnation-I-am-forever-cursed-to-be-trapped-in." You're forgiven for not including "sex-crazed…
June 4, 2018 | 01:00 EDT
I always considered The Evil Within to be a divisive game. It seems most people I've met either love it or hate it. I was in the love it crowd, and I was always hoping for a sequel. Much to my…
October 27, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
Just like any other piece of art, it's normal for video games to try and tackle difficult subjects. Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is one such game. The game immediately landed on my radar once I knew…
August 28, 2017 | 01:00 EDT
Whether you've ever wanted to or not, there is a high likelihood you have heard of Five Nights at Freddy's at some point. The ludicrously popular indie game turned horror sensation is not only…
October 10, 2016 | 11:00 EDT
Science fiction settings and horror usually go well together. The future is an uncertain place, full of promise and hope but also full of terrifying recklessness where even (and often especially) the…
October 6, 2016 | 03:00 EDT
Wooden Floor (developed and published by pheenix93) is a game with a somewhat boring name. I'll say as much right from the start. I picked it up in a bundle for the same reason that I picked up …
November 1, 2015 | 11:00 EST