Blair Witch Bloober Team 1999’s Blair Witch Project was somewhat of an anomalous movie in a couple of ways. Not only was it one of the rare American horror films which incorporated subtlety (as opposed to showing you the antagonists up front), it also kick-started the whole found footage/shaky cam craze that legions of filmmakers…
Green Hell Creepy Jar It seems like every time I turn around, there’s yet another survival game being released. And that’s really no surprise. If you take a quick gander at Steam, you’ll see a veritable plethora of survival title plastered everywhere. Some of them are of the newer variety, like little chicks that have…
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 – Winds of Magic Fatshark Games Indie game developers, Fatshark, debuted Warhammer: Vermintide 2 back in March of 2018. Just like its predecessor, Warhammer: Vermintide, it reminded me of a first-person version of the classic hack-n-slash game called Gauntlet, even down to the various character architypes (i.e. tank, ranged specialist, etc.). Vermintide…
Layers of Fear 2 Bloober Team/Gun Media 2016’s Layers of Fear was a masterclass in how to make a super-creepy psychological horror game. It was about an eccentric painter who was in the process of finishing his magnum opus. Unfortunately, he was also in the process of losing his mind. Sure, it contained many of…
Desolate Nearga/HyTrain Digital Yeah, we all know that survival games are a dime-a-dozen these days. Survival (and survival horror) fans are pretty much being spoiled right now with all of the options on the video gaming market. We’ve got everything from straight survival titles, such as The Long Dark, to more PvP-oriented fare like the…
Generation Zero Avalanche Studios Retro-futurism is something that is really tricky to convey—whether through art or the written word. Creating a world, or even a single work, that embraces both the past as well as the future is no easy task to accomplish. Video games are a form of art combined with narrative, and so…
Visage SadSquare Studios If you’re any sort of horror fan worth your salt, you’ve most likely seen the Kojima Production’s PT (playable teaser) horror extravaganza. PT functioned as a short demo for the now-cancelled Silent Hills game that horror junkies around the world had been desperately anticipating (including me). After that game was cancelled, I,…
