what are some of everyone’s must-play horror games of the last few years. normally horror games give me anxiety but i want to try some out for the spooky month, what do y’all got?
the only horror games i can really think of that i’ve beaten is resident evil 4 and 5
It’s a bit older, but I thought Soma was fantastic.
I hated Soma. I’m glad other people liked it, and it probably is worth playing for someone into horror games. But I sure didn’t like it. I wanted to, I really did, I gave it a lot of my time and tried so, so hard to like it. But I absolutely hated it, at the end of the day
Tried playing soma once and had a similar experience. I don’t know if it was over hyped for me, or I came to it way too late, but the beginning just didnt get me interested.
SOMA was good, but you have to want to like it. It would probably help to be familiar with the concept of the technological singularity, because as a first-person game, you lose a little bit of the experience of literal transformation. It raises some really interesting ideas, and probably would have benefited from a bigger budget, more writing and a little bit more world building. It felt kind of empty, and some of the boss battles felt as if you were supposed to know exactly what to do going in, based on how specific the solutions were. Sometimes you were supposed to fight them, sometimes you were supposed to run, and sometimes you were supposed to trigger something like a quick time event in a specific place, and unless you triggered it, you’d just keep getting on-hit KOed.
These are fair points, although just on the last one (working out what to do in bosses) that got less punishing some time after launch when they allowed for the option not to have things kill you, so you can focus on solutions and atmosphere and general creepy vibes. Not a perfect solution, but useful if that becomes an issue for players.
Ah. I played it on PSN about two years ago, and even then, it had already been ported from PS4 to PS5. If the option existed, I didn’t see it. I’d be interested to see how the developers move forward with newer games (that deal with the singularity, as opposed to Amnesia).
Soma was fantastic. Such a great journey
Loved this game.
Alien Isolation is a must play
Look Outside
Tell me more . I heard its like Horror Earthbound ?
It is, sort of. It’s a lovecraftian romp with some fantastic sprite art and a great atmosphere. The message is nice too, a very “Be kind to your neighbours when shit goes bad” kind of thing.
Surprisingly pretty and funny for a horror game. Also the whole game was made in about six months which is crazy for what it is
Control was great.
It was, but does it count as horror? I don’t think I would call it horror. It’s a really good game though, I really liked Control!
The SCP aspect of it is what made me think of it as a horror game, but maybe it isn’t a true horror game in the way that a lot of these other ones are.
Yeah, I mean, fair enough. And bits of it (the fridge, for example) were legitimately horrifying. Still, I’m not sure that I personally would classify it as horror, overall
if you like the amnesia series, the bunker goes so crazy hard. the main enemy is their best monster design yet imo! scared the pee outta me though, I had to play with someone stronger than me to take over at times lol.
otherwise, you might have heard the buzz around fear & hunger? great if you love cursed horror rpgmaker games.
also! another one I just thought of! mouthwashing is fantastic.
the above list goes from genuinely scares-scary-horror-game to just disturbing & unsettling.
The resident evil remakes (2,3 & 4) are well received. Also resident evil 7 & 8
Pathologic and its remake(s). The game mercilessly fucks you with psychological horror, deep plot and clunky mechanics, until you think that this is the greatest game you never want to play again.
I’m gonna give a spread of recommendations from different genres, hopefully one of these might be something you like:
Signalis (if you can get past the anti-communist undertones)
Barotrauma (requires some mates to get the most out of this one)
World of Horror (most of the scares in this come from body horror, it’s heavily inspired by Junji Ito’s artstyle so ymmv depending on whether you’ve read and enjoyed any of his manga)
Iron Lung (the past coupla years have been good ones for aquatic horror IDK why)
Crow Country was really fun. It’s not really that scary, but it’s got the spooky haunted theme park vibes.
Also not really horror, but Indika was interesting. There’s some spooky weird things that happen in it though.
Mouthwashing is pretty good. CW: sexual abuse, violence, power dynamics, mild gore. Short game, 4 hours, maybe less.
Mouthwashing is good but damn is it dark ^^
I really enjoyed a little one dev game called withering rooms ; It’s a mixture between a roguelike, a metroidvania and a survival horror. It has that weird vibe of old pc games; I love that it has a very heavy “witch theme”, the gameplay loop is fun, and It has a lot of callbacks to old ps2 era horror games.
