Feature
Daylight turns the mundanity of procedural generation into terror
Round and round we go.
Horror
News
OMORI is equal parts Final Fantasy and Eraserhead
You’d be forgiven for thinking horror games have lost their edge lately. The current torchbearer is Amnesia: start with a weird fiction pedigree, keep the player on her toes with careful formal elements, and pop in a horrific slavering hellspawn when all else fails. Games like Slender and its YouTub
News
The sci-fi thriller Caffeine looks horrifying, unlike actual caffeine, which is great
As I’m writing this I am running on caffeine the same way that a Hummer H1 “runs” on gasoline. Caffeine to me is this beautiful substance that lets me be a writer. So when I heard the words “support Caffeine on Indiegogo” I am totally into it. Australian game developer Dylan Browne, on the other han
Feature
Depths of Fear: Knossos is an interactive B-movie
The labyrinth of ineffectual design choices.
Feature
Don’t look for order in the horror of Knock-Knock
It will kill you.
News
The pure terror of Fingerbones would make Hitchcock proud
An exercise in dread.
Article
Inside the horror game that wants to lower your anxiety
Nevermind fuses biological feedback to help your everyday life.
News
The deeply troubling, cathartic Serena is available now
Transforming pain into art.
Article
How The Vanishing of Ethan Carter took over the Internet with three .gifs
Adrian Chmielarz of the Astronauts tells us of unspeakable horrors.
Article
How DreadOut combines Indonesian horror with the PlayStation 1
These teens and their damn cellphones.
Article
Mastaba Snoopy is a Cronenbergian nightmare vision of childhood
Long live the new flesh, indeed.
Review
Eldritch conjures the ghoulishness of Lovecraft without all the goofiness
We encourage all comments on this piece to be written in a Lovecraft impression.