and all of the confusion, wackiness and horror that a nightmare brings. Mix in the RE4 style combat and I think this might go down as one of my all time favorites. Now onto the sequel.

What did you think of the evil within?

Has anyone tried it here and what are your thoughts? As a die-hard Hellraiser fan, I have high hopes!

Like I'm talking scared so hard it leaves you feeling like there's electricity running through the back of your neck, moments that put you into genuine fight or flight mode. These ended up being some of my core gaming memories, this is my hall of fame:

• I was playing FNAF on my tablet when I was a kid, and I got the creepiest glitch. I started the night, opened up the camera and all of the animatronics were just gone, like they never even spawned to begin with, after I looked in every room and couldn't find any of them I closed the screen and Bonnie immediately jumpscared me.
• I played amnesia, and I had finally seen one of the monsters for the first time, so I was sneaking around trying not to alert anything, and when I come around the corner there's a bunch of furniture fused halfway into the wall, which I didn't think was that weird because one of the game's core mechanics is sanity, and I'd just seen a monster, so I'm hugging the wall making my way to the door, when suddenly I get violently sucked into the wall with the rest of the furniture right at the junction where two walls touched on the other side, which is when I realized that it was actually just a glitch.
• I'm playing subnautica below zero and I'm floating around in the lily pad biome, and if you're one of the OGs that was around in the early early access days you'll remember that sea emperors used to spawn in the lily pad biome, spoiler, I was about to figure that out. So the lily pad biome's primary feature is the gigantic lily pads, and littered on the sea bed are the frames of dead lily pads who's leaves decayed, mind you these things are gigantic, they're like half the size of a city block, so I'm floating over one, when all of the sudden it just recedes into the fog like a giant squid jetting off into the darkness of the abyss. It was not lily pad debris, it was tentacles. I am telling you I have never felt more viscerally unsafe than I did in that moment, you can't write horror like that.
• Another one from below zero, I was in my sea truck moving through the sparse arctic, when all of the sudden it hits me that there is nothing but open ocean in every direction, and then the thalassopobia starts kicking in. I don't really know why, I think I just wanted to soak in the creepy atmosphere for a second, but I decided I was going to hop out the back of the submarine for a second, and the moment I open the door there is just a fin filling the entire screen, somehow a single glow whale managed to sneak up behind me at the exact moment I realized that the ocean felt unusually empty

After 36 years I finally played a horror game and just beat it tonight. It's called Tormented Souls it it was pretty dang good, the final boss was meh and some puzzles as well but other than that I had a great time. Definitely looking forward to trying another horror game soon

For me, it's SOMA

Played this game in our office and we loved it so much that we made this story trailer as a little added gift to the fans. Hope you all enjoy it. :)

Salut !

Je cherche un jeu qui me ferait frissonner pendant mes congés 🎃

En regardant les promos, deux jeux ont attiré mon attention. L'un est une réédition, l'autre un tout nouveau jeu :

LAYERS OF FEAR : the final masterpiece

SILVER PINES

Quelqu'un les as testés ? Est ce qu'ils tiennent la route sur Switch ?

Genuinely curious. Is it possible to like playing one genre, but scared to play the other one?

For context I have already played:
- resident evil (2R, 3R, 4R, 7,8,9)
- silent hill 2
- dead space
- the last of us
- Alan wake 1 and 2

I loved all of these and it sucks that I feel I’m running out of good horror games on ps5

I'm not looking for something like RE but something actually scary.

I have played games like Re7 and silent hill but those games don't scare me.

Something uncanny, disturbing, and actually scary.

I am currently looking to get a game for the Halloween vibes after finishing gears of war eday and was wondering what people would recommend, im currently deciding between

Silent hill townfall

Hellraiser revival

Blood of the dawnwalker

Silver pines (though ill likely just get this anyway with one of the others)

I was a scaredy cat about horror until I decided to try RE. Resident Evil 7 was my first dip into the survival horror franchise, and it felt like discovering a whole new world. Everything about it was amazing, the gunplay, atmosphere, Ethan himself, the claustrophobic environment and power progression, all of it. The scariness only made it feel just that more cathartic to boomstick things down. Went straight to RE8 after that.

Thing is, nothing has really ever matched that kind of ultra specific spark I felt with RE7. I don't really like it when I play as a soldier or special operative, I want to play as an ordinary person, an everyman. There also should be some kind of combat too so it's not just helpless hiding.

The games I've searched for either have the ordinary protagonist, great environment, but no combat (Alien Isolation, Outlast, Amnesia), are third person (the other RE games), or lack the polish or have a trained protagonist (Crisol, similar indie games). I'm midway through Dead Space, cleared RE2R and got Silent Hill 2 Remake, and they're all amazing, great games, but they don't scratch the itch.

It's not like I dislike third person, I just enjoy first person more to get up and close with the horror.

In short:

- Like Ethan Winters or Miles Upshur, ordinary everyman protagonist, not a badass or special operative

- Focus on gunplay and combat, visceral and impactful

- Large scale boss fights

- Survival/action horror tense atmosphere

- Preferably first person

- Similar atmosphere to RE7 and Outlast, although not required

Are there any survival horror games that match these requirements that flew under my radar? Thanks.

A couple of days ago I posted my creature here and most of you said the same thing: it looked like Siren Head. That was fair. The speaker-horn head on a tall, thin body was doing all the talking, and that's Trevor Henderson's design, not mine.

So I went back to what the creature is supposed to be. It's called the Listener. It doesn't make noise, it hunts noise: it tracks the radio you're carrying and gets lost when the signal stops. A thing that listens shouldn't have a head full of speakers.

What changed:

- No head at all. Nothing above the shoulders should read as a face or a speaker.

- A hunched mass of acoustic panels with a hollow in the torso where it "hears".

- A cluster of bent antennas growing from one shoulder only, so the silhouette is lopsided.

- Long arms it leans on and short legs, so it moves heavy and low instead of tall and lanky.

The GIF is a native capture from the game (Unreal Engine 5, only cropped), with the camera off to the side while it walks toward the player during the red "Tempest" phase. The lightning flashes are the game's own. The lighting has also changed since my last post, so the colours won't match the old clip.

What I'd love to know:

1. Does it still remind you of Siren Head, or of any other existing creature?

2. Can you tell it's something that *listens*?

3. Creepy, or does something about it look off/goofy?

Blunt answers welcome. The last round of feedback is the reason this version exists.

If you would like to check it out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4376460/Tache_Noire/

The exploration and atmosphere is cool, but the combat is some of the absolute worst in survival horror. This first boss fight is absolutely unplayable. The boss seemingly has unlimited health as I’m unloading shotgun shells and pistol rounds into it while black shadows chase me which I seemingly can’t avoid. Terrible stuff that might take me off the game

Thanks to LoreanXavier for this amazing decompilation

Anyone else still play Welcome to the Game II? I always wanted to play it with a friend, so I put together a co-op mod (with AI doing most of the coding).

Welcome to the Game II never had co-op, so I made a mod for it with AI's help. You and a friend share one apartment: two desks, you can watch each other's screens, lights/doors/money are shared, and if one of you gets caught you both lose.

Wish me luck haha