Horror games for the season (and beyond)

[JDR13]

I recently grabbed The Evil Within 1 & 2 for free on Epic (The second game is still free for a couple more days if anyone is interested).

Are they worth playing? I remember playing a demo for the first game a long time ago and not being impressed.

 

[Arthandas]

EW1 is a decent 7/10 game. It doesn't really offer anything new compared to RE4. EW2 on the other hand is pretty good with unique semi open world gameplay and amazing boss designs, here's one of them:

Spoiler

I recommend the highest difficulty where everything one shots you, it really puts back survival in survival horror.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

 

[Morpheus Kitami]

Beat the original Resident Evil as Jill for the first time in a long time, now replaying as Chris.
It's a lot easier than I remember. A lot. Of the Resident Evil games I've played, which excludes 0 and anything after 4, this is the easiest to my memory. Outside of the zombies, it's really easy to figure out the regular enemies attack patterns and dodge 90% of them, with the other 10% being enemies right outside some area you'll be walking to and from a lot. As I'm discovering with Chris, it's also not that hard to knife zombies either. This isn't even me being some Resident Evil uber-player, I just experimented a bit this playthrough compared to my usual methodology of just trying to find everything. Back in the day I barely won the game, this time I did so quite handily. I still really liked it though, nice that at first glance these monsters which seem invincible have ways of being tricked/defeated without great losses.

 

[Justinian]

I dunno if it's been mentioned yet but Darkness 2 is on sale 75% off and it's a very fun horror FPS where in addition to guns you get a bunch of tentacles you can use to tear enemies to pieces, grab them as human shields, rip out and eat their hearts, etc.

 

[Chinese Jetpilot]

Here you go.

 

[Machocruz]

Beat the original Resident Evil as Jill for the first time in a long time, now replaying as Chris.
It's a lot easier than I remember. A lot. Of the Resident Evil games I've played, which excludes 0 and anything after 4, this is the easiest to my memory. Outside of the zombies, it's really easy to figure out the regular enemies attack patterns and dodge 90% of them, with the other 10% being enemies right outside some area you'll be walking to and from a lot. As I'm discovering with Chris, it's also not that hard to knife zombies either. This isn't even me being some Resident Evil uber-player, I just experimented a bit this playthrough compared to my usual methodology of just trying to find everything. Back in the day I barely won the game, this time I did so quite handily. I still really liked it though, nice that at first glance these monsters which seem invincible have ways of being tricked/defeated without great losses.

Same. Most games back then I only focused on getting to the end, never bothered to practice or experiment. The idea of people doing knife-only runs amazed me then, but it's actually not as difficult as it seemed.

 

[MessiahMan]

While not as well written as my previous two suggestions, this one is another adventure game with influences from Lovecraft:



Has you investigating a disappearance that leads to strange dreams, cults, dusty mansions, and lots of documents that need a sound underlining. Don't give this one a pass.



For one of the first games with blood put to pixels, a creepy forest atmosphere with a really cool day night transition, and a wonderful soundtrack, you'll need to dust off your trusty Commodore 64:



For 1983, this was the stuff of many a kid's nightmare. Really unique use of the medium. With the limited arrows it can easily be considered a precursor to the survival horror genre.

 

[duskvile]

What happened with the game Routine? Alpha game trailer 10yrs ago was made in Unity, now they switched to Unreal.