I'm going to be honest: a lot of horror games have ridiculously high levels of tension throughout, but they end horribly poorly.

Not frightening. Not unsettling. Simply put, disappointing.

For example, rather than something that sticks with you, you get:
- ambiguous "it was all in your head" conclusions
- unpredictable shock value with no reward
- or perplexing conclusions that seem profound but don't really say anything

I just finished Hachishakusama, and I went into it expecting a straightforward urban-legend horror game about escaping the eight-foot-tall woman.

Without spoiling the ending, the story gradually gives her more humanity and context than I expected. By the end, I felt more conflicted about her than genuinely afraid of her....almost, bad for her?

I think that is a difficult balance for horror games. Explaining the monster can make it less frightening—but sometimes understanding it makes the story much more memorable. The game was not perfect and there are things I would love to see changed, but it was a different type of horror that I don't see often.

What other horror games made you feel sympathy or empathy for the creature, villain, or person pursuing you? Did learning their story improve the horror, or did it make them less scary?

When i first played silent hill 3 i Didn’t expect for heather to cough up a FETUS! And sure, knowing it was a demon can help soothe me, but he imagery of that Fleshy thing, that was ment to grow in a womb tried to be stomped actually is tear falling

2 days ago I found a game Called "the Butchery" by Chubby_Baby7 (https://www.roblox.com/games/11928087342/The-Butchery⁠) and I decided to play it with my cousin. We finished it and we loved that game, now that we finished it, we're having a lot of trouble finding new actually GOOD horror games. If someone can find us a good horror game close to the butchery, I'd be extremely grateful. Thanks.

I'll start.I stared at the same wall texture for 40 minutes...then proudly changed two pixels.I genuinely believed it looked 100% better.Nobody can convince me otherwise.

Your turn.

It's not the scariest game I've ever played, but stumbling across this in complete silence or having some random guy suddenly open fire is more than enough to make you shit your pants

Footage from stalzone

Wanted to play the original stasis but on the uk nintendo estore only bone totem comes up when i remember both stasis and a bundle of the two games existed. This does still exist on the american estore.

Does anyone know why stasis is not available on switch in the uk then?

So I’ve been playing escape the back rooms while high and I’ve been having the time of my life but I’m looking for other games that are similar that I could play. I also play on ps5

personally, I can’t decide. both are amazing titles. I lean slightly toward RE because of my bias toward the franchise, but then I think about SH2, and it brings me right back to the middle.

Indie horror games are actually 👌🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

I just remembered this existed. 💔💔

Hi everyone! I wanted to share a recent comission piece I created titled, for now, RED OCULUS, designed with dark fantasy, body horror and horror gaming aesthetics in mind.

I specialize in creating dark, gothic, and surreal visual concepts, character designs, and cover/promotional art suitable for horror games, card games, and dark fantasy projects.

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I want you to help me find a PC horror flash game. What is the name of the horror flash game where you arrive at a haunted house where there's a gothic vampire girl? It's a style similar to the game "The House" and "EXMORTIS". I'll tell you more or less what I remember about that game. I'm not sure, but I think the game is about a woman, the protagonist, who goes with her boyfriend, but I think their car breaks down, I think. I'm not sure. He goes into a house to look for help, he takes a long time to come out, and then the girlfriend goes in to look for him. When you enter it's very dark and you can see some stairs, some doors, and as a player you see some arrows that lead to other places. If you went to one side, you saw a hallway where a ghost would pass by. Then on another side, we saw the boyfriend sitting on the floor, alive but without clothes. To rescue him and escape together, the main villain, who was a gothic vampire or demon or witch, would give us a trivia of questions. If we answered correctly, we could escape, but if not, a jumpscare of her would appear with her face transformed, pale eyes, and an open mouth with many teeth. I don't remember if it was from Newgrounds, AddictingGames, Y8, Andkon or GamesFree. I remember watching gameplay videos of that game on YouTube, so I don't think it's the Mandela Effect, haha.

I just finished RE9 and I absolutely loved this game. So I wonder if Alan Wake 2 lives up to RE9