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The abandoned Japanese town that inspired PS2 horror game Siren is predictably unsettling
Graveyard town.
survival horror
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Sci-fi horror game SOMA’s newest trailer will leave you feeling alone and afraid
Sci-fi survival horror game SOMA wants to mess with your head in every way imaginable. Set in a remote underwater research facility doing some wacky shit with robots and artificial intelligence, the player must survive the aftermath of its collapse into chaos. While recalling visuals from BioShock‘s
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Until Dawn is a smart riff on horror-movie tropes
Play as a bunch of asshole teens who reenact the past half-century of scary movies.
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Go beyond the realms of death with Sylvio
From out of the murky depths crawls a classically weird horror game.
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Night Terrors will use augmented reality to turn your home into a horror house
Over the past year the horror genre has revitalized fear. Films like David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows, a film featuring a sexually transmitted haunting, and Jennifer Kent’s storybook monster film The Babadook, have received unexpectedly raving reviews and high ratings on Rotten Tomatoes. In 2013,
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SOMA’s creepy tendrils threaten to reach out with reality-questioning horror soon
Frictional Games, creator of 2010’s infamous horror hit Amnesia: The Dark Descent, has announced that its latest title SOMA has hit beta—it looks and plays near-exactly as it will in its final version, in other words. All that’s left between now and a release date is waiting for Frictional to gather
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The striking darkness and illusory light of White Night
A good mashup, but not quite a great one.
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Dying Light’s biggest scares aren’t its monsters
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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White Night is beautiful, stylish, coming out soon
Part-noir, part-horror, White Night releases March 3rd.
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Silent Hill 2’s endings aren’t what you want, but what you deserve
Or: Why I’ve never seen “In Water.”
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Alien: Isolation might do the impossible: make Alien scary again
You have my sympathies.
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In Pathologic, everything is terrible and it’s all your fault
Get ready to feel stressed out and useless in a plague-infested town.