Tag: Spooky Month
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Haunting Ground: Hiding and Dog Training Horror
So, before we start talking about Haunting Ground I think we need a little backstory on the game. And it all starts with a game most people are very familiar with called Resident Evil 4! Just like Resident Evil 4, Haunting Ground comes to us from Capcom. You see, despite the fact that RE4 would…
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Fatal Frame II: The Best of a Niche Series
So if there’s one game I talk about this month that isn’t very niche it’s probably going to be this one, Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly! For one it’s actually part of a series and two it’s a series that is technically still going? While we haven’t gotten a new entry in the series in…
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Spooky Month 3: Return of the Niche!
It’s finally that time of the year again. The time to chip away at that backlog of horror games as Spooky Month is upon us! Or perhaps just add to that backlog as, just like last year, I’m about to recommend three horror games I think everyone should check out. Unlike last year however, these…
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SIGNALIS: Surpassing your Inspirations
It’s kind of crazy to think about how many once great and massive franchises are now dead in the water, seemingly forgotten by those that hold the rights to them. Series like Mega Man, F-Zero, Kid Icarus, Star Fox, Punch-Out, Dino Crisis, Darkstalkers, Killer Instinct, Banjo-Kazooie, and like everything made by Konami. Lots and lots…
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Alan Wake: A Light in the Dark
When looking back on the history of horror games, I feel like one generation is often over looked and not because it was an underrated era or anything, but because it was easily the darkest time for the genre. And not even in a spooky scary way either! I’m talking about the 360/PS3 generation which…
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Killer Frequency: A new tune for Horror Games
I always like to talk about smaller horror games that go under the radar, like Mundaun and Fatal Frame, because they can sometimes offer some unique experiences or their own brand of horror. And as you probably guessed from the title of this post, Killer Frequency does both! Released earlier this year in June, I…
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The return of Spooky Month and the struggles of recommending Horror Games!
It’s that time of the year again at long last! And just like last year, all month long I will be writing about horror games. This is the perfect time of the year for it and I’ll always take an excuse to gush about one of my favorite genres of video games! Unlike last year…
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Psychological Horror – Horror that sits with you
To end this month of horror game related posts, I thought I’d talk about what might be my favorite kind of horror, and that’s psychological horror! Unlike with shock horror, that mainly focuses on things like jump scares and freaky imagery, psychological horror generally requires a bit more thought. It focuses more on dread and…
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Co-op Horror: Putting Fear into Friendship
Horror games are easily some of the most creative kinds of games around. This mainly stems from the fact that developers are always trying to find new ways to scare people! And through that drive we tend to get some pretty creative ideas. But there’s one kind of horror game that people really don’t seem…
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Indie Horror Games: Like a needle in a hay stack
With cheaper and more easily available development tools like Unity and the Unreal Engine, making your own games has never been easier! This can be seen pretty easily with the rise of indie games in recent years. Games that are developed by one person or a small group with a small budget and normally without…
